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This is so freaking typical...
Parcel arrives, delivered safe and sound, not a dent or mark on the carton. We open it up and I confess to being impressed by the solidity and presentation of the packaging - in fact I remarked that it was packaged like a porcelain vase.
This awe lasted until we actually touched the lappy itself: it was moist. The packaging itself also felt very cold, but we reckoned this was normal as it had been sitting in a cold van all morning. But I did not expect there to be moisture on the machine itself, especially not on metal parts like the exposed prongs of the power plug!!
Now, the machine turns on fine, so it's probable that it hadn't been sitting in a high-moisture environment for long enough for the internals to rust, but I was so horrified when I touched it that I felt like ranting! Every PC component I ever bought, even the bargain-bottom no-brand ones, had two things in common: plastic covers for power plug prongs, and a little bag of silicon gel in the box!!! How can Apple go to the expense and effort to package the thing like a box of designer chocolates and neglect these basic things?
Parcel arrives, delivered safe and sound, not a dent or mark on the carton. We open it up and I confess to being impressed by the solidity and presentation of the packaging - in fact I remarked that it was packaged like a porcelain vase.
This awe lasted until we actually touched the lappy itself: it was moist. The packaging itself also felt very cold, but we reckoned this was normal as it had been sitting in a cold van all morning. But I did not expect there to be moisture on the machine itself, especially not on metal parts like the exposed prongs of the power plug!!
Now, the machine turns on fine, so it's probable that it hadn't been sitting in a high-moisture environment for long enough for the internals to rust, but I was so horrified when I touched it that I felt like ranting! Every PC component I ever bought, even the bargain-bottom no-brand ones, had two things in common: plastic covers for power plug prongs, and a little bag of silicon gel in the box!!! How can Apple go to the expense and effort to package the thing like a box of designer chocolates and neglect these basic things?
