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Laptop Warranties and Accidental Damage Coverage: What You Need to Know

Laptop Warranties and Accidental Damage Coverage: What You Need to KnowYes it does have thatAs I view a Laptop as a product that is susceptable to outside influences as a vehicle is.It does not matter how careful and protective you are, The unit is out of your control at places...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Laptop Warranty, Accidental Damage Coverage, Apple Inc., Need-to-know, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

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For The First Time in Ages, I Agree With Apple

Spiders and dust on a slippery slopeWorst inside of a computer I've ever seen was a spider infestation. Must have been a million of them. But what I wonder is where does voiding the warranty stop?A generic abuse statement may not be sufficient in the world of EULA's....

Tags: Manufacturing, PRODUCTIVITY, Apple Inc., manufacturer, smoker, First-time, computer

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

For The First Time in Ages, I Agree With Apple

Is this how you work? Then don't get angry at your OEM when they invalidate your warranty when you send your PC in for service. Yesterday our own Apple Core blogger Jason O'Grady reported that Apple has now adopted a policy of voiding...

Tags: OEM, Apple Inc., Insurance, Financial Planning, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-11-24

News to know: SOA, Google Voice app; Twitter bots; Google Wave; Clunkers

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Joe McKendrick: More SOA tools emerge in the cloud Jason Hiner: Forget the iPhone app, Google Voice coming as...

Tags: Google Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Jason Perlow, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Bot, Twitter, Attack, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), XML, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Frugal Friday: Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2, Eric Schmidt/Steve Jobs Divorce, New Sony eBook Readers, Laptop Accidental Damage Coverage, Zscaler

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss the MSDN/TechNet release of Windows 7, Google CEO Eric Schmidt's departure from the Apple board, the newly announced SONY ebook readers, Accidental Damage Coverage for your laptop, and talk with Michael Sutton, VP of Security Research for Zscaler, the...

Tags: Sony Corp., Server, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows 7, E-books, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-08-07

News to know: Palm ads; Microhoo SEC filing; U.S. Marines; Bing; Skype; Clunkers

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Palm Pre's creepy ads: They worked. You're still talking about them Andrew Nusca: Palm's creepy Pre ads:...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Advertisement, SEC Filing, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows, Projectors, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Laptop Warranties and Accidental Damage Coverage: What You Need to Know

Hewlett-Packard, after being flogged in public, contacted me and replaced my broken laptop that they had earlier claimed was accidentally damaged and not covered by their warranty. I appreciate HP's willingness to rectify the issue, but there clearly needs to be some improvement on their part...

Tags: Warranty, Hewlett-Packard Co., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-08-04

Sitting "Shiva" For My Dead Laptop

My laptop's screen died during 4th of July weekend. I sent it back to HP for warranty repair, but then they wanted either $89.00 to send it back without repair, or $440.00 to replace a $99.00 OEM part due to "Accidental Damage". I...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Shiva Corp., Laptop Computer, Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Pwn2Own hacker: Apple Safari is 'easy pickings'

Pwn2Own hacker: Apple Safari is 'easy pickings'This would be the Charlie Millerwho won by cheating, correct? By using an already known Perl exploit that Apple hadn't patched yet in OS X.The event organizers know he cheated, but didn't have the onions to call him on it. Well, actually, they were...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Miller, Apple Inc., Apple Safari

Discussion threads 2009-03-03

The insurers bid to fix health care

The insurers bid to fix health carethe problem isthat no one wants to lay the blame where it belongs. Government. Because that would mean killing socialized medicine.Bingo!!Blanky doesn't want to admit that tort reform *is* needed. My sister is a doc...the cost to her for malpractice insurance is shocking....

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Socialized Medicine, insurance company, tort, health care, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

Dell Latitude D420

Dell's business-minded Latitude notebooks have always been more about function than form, but the Latitude D420 manages to pack some decent specs into a package that is both small and attractive, making this ultraportable the smallest laptop Dell currently offers. With almost a full workday's worth of battery life, the...

Tags: Notebooks, Dell Latitude, Latitude D420, Dell Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2006-09-15