Apple more than makes up for the slightly late iBook delivery

[cdybedahl]

As many of you guessed from my previous post, I got my new iBook yesterday. Which coincidentally was also the day when Apple released their new, faster and cheaper iBooks...

So, spurred by comments in the MacOS X community here on LJ, I just called Apple about it. The practicalities of it is that by Swedish law I have the right to return this machine for a full refund within two weeks of getting it. So I could, in theory, just return this one and buy a faster one for about 2500 SEK (about 180 UKP) less. But this would be a bother both for me (who'd have to spend more time laptop-less) and for Apple (who'd have a pretty much unsellable piece of hardware on their hands). So I asked if they could possibly consider just refunding me the price difference between what I paid and what it costs today.

And they just said "Sure, no problem". Which makes me happy, since that should easily pay for the extra RAM I was going to buy for it anyway :-)

Also, after less than 24 hours of experience with it, I like MacOS X. A lot. To they point where I'm seriously considering replacing my current stationary box with an iMac, as soon as I scrape together the money for it.

Comments

[steverogerson.livejournal.com]

Glad you're enjoying it. As a Mac Os fan, I can understand your experience of the operating system.

[simonb.livejournal.com]

Apple do appear to be quite good in this regard; I know of at least one person who had an iBook on order and was told that they'd upgrade the spec of his laptop to match what was just announced at no extra cost which made him quite happy.

And MacOS X is cute; if nothing else being able to use amanda to back up my wife's iMac is highly useful, especially since you can configure it to respond to WOL packets.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

That's rather reasonable, really.
slower secondhand macs are not very expensive, at least in the UK. Pick one up next time you're over :-)