Kaboom! My Quad just blew up!

[steve_hill4]

The worrying thing is that my MBP also popped twice last night. Small pops that sounded like the speakers going. I turned the voulme up and down and there was no sound whatsoever. I paused the music in iTunes and played it again and back to normal. Two minutes later, pop again. I turned the music in iTunes down to zero and paused/played again and so far no problem, even since slowly increasing the volume to the same level it was when this occured.

At the time, iTunes ws set to 100% and I was on 12/16 bars on the system volume.

Just an aside, the mention of popping reminded me.

 

[technicolor]

Speaking of AppleCare. With a Mac, you get 90 days of phone/technical support, and 1 year of warranty. With AppleCare, you get 3 years of each, If it is correct, that you can buy AppleCare ofr you Mac up to 1 yea after the purchase, why not wait until it had been 364 days after the purchase, get an Apple Care, and you would have a total of 4 yearsd warranty and 3 years and 3 months of phone support for a normal AppleCare price. Though you would not have phonesupport for nine months of the first year, you could just take it down to the store. The people at Copenhagen Apple Store will help you for free. AppleCare or not!

Apple is smarter than that.

To the OP sorry about your computer.

 

[steve_hill4]

Apple is smarter than that.

They most certainly are. With an iPod it's an extra year through AppleCare, whenever you purchase. My single year expired very recently, but before it did, they sent me an email asking if I wanted another year through Applecare.

Wait to day 364 and the extra two years starts on day 366. That's how they see it, extending the warranty to that period, (1>3 in this case), not you get three and the single year gets scrubbed. However if you don't do it until the end, you get 90 days phone support. Do it immediately and that becomes 3 years support by phone.

 

[Josias]

Incorrect. Purchasing AppleCare within the first year after making a hardware purchases simply activates the last two years of hardware coverage / last 33 months of phone support. No matter when you purchase AppleCare, the warranty never extends beyond three years from the date of purchase.

Damn! No way of cheating Apple!

 

[generik]

Why not just sell your Mac towards the end of the year and buy a new one?

Depending on your Mac, Applecare coverage can reach as much as 25% of its retail price, all for the assurance that Apple will even answer your phone calls for "free" when something goes wrong.

Is it really worth it? I rather just keep upgrading.

 

[princealfie]

Where can I order a kaboom apple? Newton's figs?

 

[dman]

Loud PoP!

I just had my PowerMac G5 freak me out. I have had my new mac for only about a month or two. It made this super loud pop and just turned off by itself. I hurried to turn off the surge protector its connected to and opened the case to see if something blew up. I was smelling around for any kind of smoke or burning/hot plastic smell, but there was none. Took out the detachable fan looking for liquid... none. I put the fan back in and turned the power source back on, pressed the power button on the tower, and it started right up. What the heck made the loud pop? Sounded like a fire cracker.
I think I will purchase the apple care plan now.
Anybody know whats going on?

 

[Grimace]

I've heard of a lot of Quads having this problem. Apple should fix it for you without issue.

 

[xPismo]

A major problem in the electronics industry today is the problem of counterfeit capacitors.... The "popping" sound you heard was almost certainly an electrolytic capacitor exploding... the compound can "boil over" or explode.

I so remember having this problem on my racing R/C car. Bought a batch of 'high end' caps and started blowing them one after another. Went through everything trying to figure out what the problem was.

Went back to the shop the next week and they told me it was a counterfeit batch.

Aaah, memories.

Bummer on the 3k Apple that went pop. I'd be bummed.