Smokers Beware: You Void Your Mac’s Warranty

Want to see something gayer than Adam Lambert’s boy on boy kiss during the American Music Awards? Just walk into any Apple Store and check out the smugness of the so-called “geniuses” that staff the place with their tight pants and their Kate Gosselin multi-colored hairdos. Worse, if you go there with a broken Mac, and they smell cigarette smoke on your clothes, they will tell you that your warranty is void because second-hand smoke is a health hazard and nicotine is on OSHA’s list of harmful materials in a workplace. That’s freakin’ GAY.

From CNET here:

Two Mac users’ AppleCare warranties appear to have been voided due to the presence of cigarette smoke in their homes.

One, named Derek, recounts the tale of his overheating black MacBook. He took it into the Apple store in Jordan Creek, West Des Moines.

He told The Consumerist: “Today, April, 28, 2008, the Apple store called and informed me that due to the computer having been used in a house where there was smoking, that has voided the warranty and they refuse to work on the machine, due to ‘health risks of secondhand smoke.’”

He continued: “Nowhere in your AppleCare terms of service can I find anything mentioning being used in a smoking environment as voiding the warranty.”

Then along came Ruth, who took her son’s iMac to an authorized repair center. After five days, they apparently told her they couldn’t work on it because it was contaminated with cigarette smoke and was therefore a bio-hazard.

When Ruth appealed to Jobs’ office, she said she was told by someone named Dena that nicotine was on OSHA’s list of hazardous substances.

Computer duster is also on the list of OSHA’s list of hazardous substances, but they work with that.