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Monday November 23, 2009
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Smoking is terrible for you. No question about that. But can it also be hazardous to your electronics warranties? It can if you own Apple products. Turns out if you've smoked around your computer, Apple can refuse to work on it, citing "biohazard" concerns.
This information comes from The Consumerist, which has reports from two Apple owners who had their warranties voided after smoking around their computers--actually, only one of them smoked. The other claims that that the company "attribute[ed] non-smoking residue to second hand smoke."
The Apple store employees reportedly "refuse to work on the machine, due to 'health risks of second hand smoke.' "
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November 23, 2009 10:41 PM
Having worked in support for a long time around user computers, I'm not terribly sympathetic here. I've seen a number of computers where the innards are all full of ash and whatnot, laptops with stained keys, laptop keyboards with burns and ash stains across the top, and so on.
I mean, I do empathize a bit, but to that end, I think this falls into the whole "spilling water on your keyboard" kind of thing - you have to be careful with your electronics, you can't just light up over your laptop or your open Mac Pro case and expect everything to be okay.