MacBook Pro owner beats Apple in court over faulty 8600M GT

Thanks for this..
I'm an apple user and it's nice to know that the company has typical corporate america values too...
they've been put on a pedestal by users,, but the bottom line is $$...and screw the consumer..

Yay for the little guy!

I am an Apple user, and love the products. Have never had one fail (yet). However, it's nice to know what kind of company they are, should I ever have to deal with this.

I wonder if Apple changed after Steve Jobs passed away, or have they always been this ruthless?

Steve created this ruthlessness.

Pretty dumb! Why sue Apple? Their products are the best in the universe and they can't ship something that is defective. You have yourself to blame, maybe you charged your MacBook Pro from a power outlet that was used to charge an Android device. You should have tried other options; did you try placing the Netbook with the screen facing south-west?

As stated in the article, someone part of the iCry crowd took "advantage" of Apple. Just some guy abusing the courts...

Arrogant Apple user's got no idea what they agreeing to in the terms & conditions
Apple a big rip off and most of the people are brain wasted or no brainer at all considering you have to pay high premiums
Also paying extra for all the minor upgrades e.g. memory/ HDD and so on
With the addons to connect you devices to other components which also cost extra
Serve them right when there fancy expensive tech goes wrong and Apple would not honour there side of the deal

This doesn't smell right.... no one is ever a 'jerk for no reason'. We're hearing this story from Seattle Rex... we're not getting both sides. He's a blogger and I'll bet he has said some things on his blog that have offended Apple. There's a bigger reason here why Apple wouldn't replace this dude's PC. Especially since it's such an obvious warranty case.

I'm glad he won, it certainly sounds like he's right, but I'd like the whole story on why this went so far. If Apple was willing to spend more to deny this guy a PC than to give him one, then there's something else going on.

$4000 in the hole is why he went so far. You gonna let someone shaft you for 4 Grand?

You were wonderin if this is a change after Steve Jobs' death, but after reading his biography I would have to say this is just a perpepuation of Jobs' attitude.

Some maneger did a big boo boo.
The bad publicety isnt worth it
A little kid with some what of power and this kind of mistakes happen
Sry about my english im isreali and can not be boderd with mistake fixer

I've never had an Apple product fail on me (yet) but I've heard a handful of good customer service stories from close friends who had a faulty Apple product replaced in-store after a quick check. In all cases they didn't have AppleCare but were still under the regular 12 month warranty period.

As MilwaukeeMike said, it seems odd that they would go through all this trouble considering Nvidia had already acknowledged the GPU issue and was footing the bill. Anyway, if that's all there is to it and Apple was acting out of spite, good on him for putting up a fight and making the story public.

Guest said:
"Also paying extra for all the minor upgrades e.g. memory/ HDD and so on"

Are these things free in your world?

Take your money and buy something other then a Mac this time!!! This is just another reason why I'll NEVER buy anything from Apple.

I know for a FACT my upgrades don't cost the extra premiums Apple charges there loyal customer

If anyone wants proof that apple could care less about their customers, here it is...

An uptick in speed from 2.5 to2.6 is free in anyones world it's called overclock. Not quite what I would call a $300.00 upgrade.

Always been like this. I hated working as a Genius only because the manager use to ask me to lie all the time just to make the customer spend more money to get a new one.