Home > Consumer Reviews > Apple PowerBook Laptop 12" M9183LL/A (1.33-GHz PowerPC G4, 256 MB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive)

This computer rocks, It is really fast. And so easy to use and customize.
It's over priced. It should cost around a thousand.(made in china but designed in California).
First of all this is a great product, I bought that as a gift for a friend.
I'm a P.C. guy, I'm definitively buying one for myself but at a local apple store see below why :
After switching it on; I discovered that there was a dead pixel a bright green dot on the screen
Very annoying your eyes always look at that spot.
After visiting my local Apple store (waoooo !!! the most friendly and knowledgeable staff I ever deal with - the Los Angeles - Grove store) these guys are great;
So after visiting the store to exchange the Powerbook they told me that since I had only one deadpixel, it's not considered defective, that I should return it to AMAZON, but if I had bought at an apple store, I could speak with the manager and have it exchanged special that it was only 2 days old.
After contacting AMAZON for a return here's an extract from AMAZON answer
"As an industry standard, manufacturers consider more than three
consecutive dead pixels on a LCD display to constitute a defective
product. As you have only one, we are unable to send a replacement
for the Apple PowerBook Notebook 12" M9183LL/A."

Don't get me wrong AMAZON has a great customer service, but in this case they should listed in the product description. That this product may come with deadpixels and if you have less than 3 deadpixels consecutive you are screwed.(what is the definition of consecutive ?)
If they had put that warning, I'm wondering how many customer will still buy any electronic equipment with LCD display on amazon

So my advise is buy locally at your apple store. Test it right away, or even if you notice any deadpixel, you can always return it to your local store

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