Monitor Blues Redux
Category: Apple/Mac OS...
Posted Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 07:48 PM [GMT-6]

A year almost ago to the day, I posted about the fact that my barely-out-of-warranty Apple 17" LCD monitor had gone bad. I later followed up on that post with a report of how Apple stepped up to the plate and did the right thing by giving me a free repair of said monitor.

It's unfortunate that I have to mark this anniversary by announcing that the repair has come undone. It lasted about nine months, significantly longer than the 90 days it was warranted for, but with two significant malfunctions in two years of life, I'm giving up on Apple, at least as far as monitors go.

I have no doubt that Apple's 17 incher suffers from a genetic disfunction which the company refuses to acknowledge. It's either a design flaw or a supplier problem, but, really, I don't care. I've already ordered a new NEC 19" LCD monitor, with a larger screen and better specs than Apple's, for essentially the same price but with a 3 year warranty.

Apple may still make the best looking products on the market, but when you rely on them for your living, function is going to trump form every time.