[ccp4bb] off-topic Apple computer question

[William Scott]

Hi folks:

Sorry this is a wee bit off topic, but since I am more likely to get  
a straight answer from people here, I'm going to ask..

I have 2 identical laptops.  We bought both for the lab about 2 years  
ago.  They are G4 ppc.  I bought an extra half gig of memory for each  
at the time of purchase, but I think it is from ramjet, not Apple.

Both drives failed within a few weeks of one another, making me  
wonder if they were really built by Ford.  The second one came back  
from Apple today with a snotty message saying that the third-party  
memory had caused the problem and that they will refuse to do a  
repair if we ever send them a computer in the future with a third- 
party memory chip in it.

This strikes me as absolute horse-hockey, but then again, maybe I am  
not aware of something I should be.

Thanks.

Bill