New 13" MBA Ultimate going back

[aristobrat]

Didn't knew about that 10% return policy, that's wack. I mean if you bought it and returned it the next day, what's the point in Apple keeping 10% for your money back?

First off, if you return something for a refund because it's defective, they don't charge 10%.

If you return something for a refund because of buyers remorse, they charge 10% because they have to take your return, fully recondition it, and then resell it at a discounted price as a refurb.

the air is way too light duty to do more than a little light duty student work.

Based on your 1-day experience with a defective model?

I have purchased six Thinkpads in the last 4 months and not a single one has had a defect.

The point is, there HAVE been people that have purchased Thinkpads in the last 4 months that got lemons (and had the same experience that you had with the Air).

If they started posting about how utterly useless Thinkpads were (because of their one experience with a lemon), would you agree? I mean, YOUR experience was that you purchased SIX and they all worked. And here's this guy that purchased one, it was obviously a lemon, and he's trying to make the case that Thinkpads are just a toy because his broke.

Sorry yours was a lemon. Statistically, someone's got to get one (same thing's true with Thinkpads too, be happy that someone wasn't you over the last 4 months). But you are being a bit of a poor sport by trying to equate your experience with a lemon into some broader review that "Airs are for lightweight student use only".

 

[kalex]

yes and I've purchased double figure number of Apple products and they all had serious issues within 18 months.

whats your point...?

your anecdotal evidence (like mine) is useless.

LOL. Then you must have much worse luck then me

 

[FAsnakes]

my guess is it was a financial stretch

+1

 

[EthanNixon]

LOL. What a poor guesser!

I was wary because it costs so little but then when it would not work, well I figured that is all you get. i own a company with 42 employees.

You likely are not even employed.

So, he made an assumption of you and you retorted back with one of your own?

NICE BRO, good luck with your company of 42 employees. He owns one with 43, bet you feel dumb now.

I think I found out the reason why small businesses usually fail, because their owners lack complete common sense.

 

[treynolds]

My Guess is a Troll

One of the lamest posts I've seen in a long time...

 

[FAsnakes]

One of the lamest posts I've seen in a long time...

^
lol

 

[gwsat]

One of the lamest posts I've seen in a long time...

^
lol

Whether intentionally or not, it seems as if the responses the arrogant, offensive twit has collected here have proved that his posts worked like trollery. Interestingly, though, he hasn't posted in nearly 3 hours. Do we dare hope he really has moved on? I hope so!

 

[johnnymg]

what you are saying here seems to be the irrational lashing out of a man who has been offended by another poster's suggestion that he couldn't really afford a 13 inch ultimate mba. It appears to me, at least, that you may take yourself way, way too seriously to be posting to macrumors, where some who read your words may have only 41, or even fewer, employees.

If you had considered what posters have been saying about the 13 inch ultimate mba here, instead of reacting angrily to another poster, you would have realized that the overwhelming majority of those of us who have this model have found it entirely reliable and incredibly powerful. From this i suggest you would have seen that your initial decision to buy a 13 inch ultimate was a wise one and your decision to return it is, well, less wise.

10+

 

[archipellago]

Funny how the Apple crowd can't accept that some people might think that a lot of what their precious company makes isn't very good.

the Air form factor is great I just can't stand the awful software it runs.

 

[FAsnakes]

Yes, that's exactly right - it's unacceptable..

 

[KPOM]

I will not be amazed, two others were at the store returning their Air. One was on his third unit. It does not take 3 for me to realize that it is not "serious" hardware. I was hoping it could actually be used in business but was wrong as it is way to light duty. I have purchased six Thinkpads in the last 4 months and not a single one has had a defect. From what I read in these forums this is not the case with Apple. The iMac would be an embarrassment to any company!

I will agree that Apple has good service ans the refunded my money 100% will not restocking fee, as they should!

I don't really think the MacBook Air is "light duty." It is, however, a completely redesigned product within a few weeks of initial release. I'm not surprised about glitches.

The thing to note is that Apple on the whole is better than average.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/11/17/reliability.study.has.apple.4th.place/


They outsource their manufacturing to Foxconn, which makes computers for Apple and HP, among others, and other products for Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Nintendo and others. Interestingly, HP was toward the bottom of the SquareTrade study.

 

[KPOM]

Funny how the Apple crowd can't accept that some people might think that a lot of what their precious company makes isn't very good.

the Air form factor is great I just can't stand the awful software it runs.

OS X?

I think the OP was more dissatisfied with the hardware than the software.

 

[jeffg819]

One of the lamest posts I've seen in a long time...

Please explain.

The OP clearly had an ax to grind with the MBA and Apple that seemed to snark out from under his original, rather silly but benign post. And it's lame to call him out?

Or...

Were you agreeing the OP is lame?

 

[brentsg]

One of the lamest posts I've seen in a long time...

I'm going with troll.

It's difficult to imagine someone so shortsighted actually growing a business to 42 employees. And I doubt they'd be interjecting that kind of thing into a forum insult either.

 

[gwsat]

I'm going with troll.

It's difficult to imagine someone so shortsighted actually growing a business to 42 employees. And I doubt they'd be interjecting that kind of thing into a forum insult either.

The OP let himself be overcome by his own arrogance and emotionalism brought about by a gratuitously nasty post suggesting that the OP was returning his 13 inch Ultimate MBA because he probably couldn't afford it. I thought that was out of line but the OP's responses seemed to me to be even more out of line. Anybody who can't deal with some of the socially challenged morons who post here has no business posting here either. Anyway, the OP hasn't posted to the thread since a little after 3:00 PM yesterday, so maybe he learned something after all and decided it was time to move on.