Amadeus Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Apple Computer says smoking will void warranties Is it April 1st already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jehovah Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Don't see a problem here, you put a noxious sunstance in your computer and it get's screwed, your fault and no free repair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevster Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 One of my first IT jobs was for a media company in the 80s and smoking was allowed in the office. The brown oily shit that gathered on the internal components and mixed with general dust was disgusting. Didn't stop people smoking though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbms Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 I remember in the day of the massive hard disc systems seeing a microscopic comparison of a grain of dust and a grain of cigarette smoke, the dust was just less than the gap between the head and the disc, the smoke just larger, which is why smoking was always banned in hard disc rooms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 We used to have to go through an airlock to get to even get to the reception area of the building where the computers actually lived. But we used to smoke in the terminal rooms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolandkirk Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Apple Computer says smoking will void warranties Is it April 1st already? Apple is known to discharge their responsability as soon as they can. If this news is true it's not astonishing. Go on buying PCs !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimcalagon Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 One of my first IT jobs was for a media company in the 80s and smoking was allowed in the office. The brown oily shit that gathered on the internal components and mixed with general dust was disgusting. I had similar experiences working in IT in the 80s. Funnily enough the company had banned employees from eating citrus fruit near terminals as (allegedly) the citric acid evaporated and condensed on the electrical components, potentially eating them away but it was alright to smoke near them, clogging the innards up with tarry crap. But then I doubt many of the senior managers were fatally addicted to oranges... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 A doctors' health-fascist orientated statement a day, keeps the Apple away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Apple is known to discharge their responsability as soon as they can. If this news is true it's not astonishing. My experience of Apple has been fantastic support including them fixing stuff for free even out of warrantee. More or less the opposite of what you are saying. And good local support here on the IOM too. [Disclaimer Windows 7 and Ubuntu are fantastic mature products too and Chrome is going to be the OS which most people will use by default unless they need to run specific work related applications]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca1328 Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 apple and hard discs.....what about those particular Apples with no spinning hard discs....ie SSD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimcalagon Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 A doctors' health-fascist orientated statement a day, keeps the Apple away. This is nothing to do with health-fascism - tobacco smoke can produce tarry build-ups inside electrical equipment which can cause malfunctions. When I first started working in IT, in 1988, the company I worked for had a huge air-conditioned room with the largest commercial Unix implementation in Europe. The various manufacturers of the hardware that we used (HP, Wang, McDonnell Douglas, Digital Equipment, Pyramid and others) all specified that their hardware should be kept in an environment where they would not be exposed to tobacco smoke. This was due to smoke particles causing hard disk crashes and also to reduce the likelihood of short-circuits on PCBs due to build-up of tarry deposits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pragmatopian Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 tobacco smoke can produce tarry build-ups inside electrical equipment which can cause malfunctions I must have opened up in excess of 250 computers in the course of my work. One was at an office in Croatia where smoking was permitted: the stuff was literally dripping off the motherboard. It was a pretty effective anti-smoking advert - I can still remember vividly how foul it was 8 years later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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