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Then I'd sell it.
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But denying warranty coverage because of OSHA is BS. OSHA is between Apple and its employees, and is not an excuse for Apple (or any other company) to violate its agreements with its customers. There are ways of upholding the warranty without violating OSHA (appropriate PPE or hardware replacement). You don't get to back out on legal agreements because it's too much hassle.
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Like an idiot, I kept an ashtray right under my iMac. The smoke of course rose up into the iMac and created a haze in the upper left hand corner of the screen. And one of my fans was started running at about half as fast as it should have been. So I didn't put two and two together (for some unknown reason) and took it to a Genius.
His first question was, "Do you smoke in front of your iMac?" And I told him yes, I'm an idiot, and was expecting to pay them clean and fix my fan. BUT they replaced my fan free of charge and cleaned my screen. No complaints here.
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Fix the effing machine. Some jerk off wants to pass the job to someone else 'cos it smells bad, have at it, but someone better fix it. If it was my computer, bet your butt I'd be hauling Apple into small claims court for denying warranty coverage. Christ, *biohazard*? With all the other toxic crap inside the computer? You have to be kidding me. You might as well not service computers owned by people with cats 'cos those cat hairs and cat dander get sucked up into the machine and some people are allergic to it.
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B'sides, I thought smoking was part of that hipster culture Apple marketed too...
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I was just giving an example of what can happen at an extreme. I tend to agree with most everyone else that Apple is being pedantic about this. I doubt that the case was extreme like that. If it was, I could understand Apple, but otherwise I think it's just them being afraid to touch something because it's ''icky''.
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I can make sure to you that here in sanfrancisco/bayarea/silicon valley (apple central) smoking (cigeratts at least) is very un-hip and totally not cool,
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