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A device that is used to provide laptops--with limited ports and expansion options built-in--with a larger amount of ports and expandability. Most port replicators are proprietary devices that work with one particular model of laptop and add extra ports such as additional USB and PS/2 ports and sound line-in and line-out ports.
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Port Replicator - On 28 Nov 2003 11:06:52 -0800, eric_wahl@yahoo.com(washerlessincolorado) wrote:..The biggest issue I have had with Maytag is when it comes to service.The friendly guy whose is always asleep at the office because theyhave so few failures, is probably asleep, because they have so fewcustomers....Our experience with Maytag is also that their service is dismal, evenwhen the failure of their products is obviously due to a design ormanufacturing flaw in their products.We bought a new 30" slide--in Magic Chef (a Maytag brand) 30" gas oventen years ago that has actually worked about a dozen times duringthose years. The problem is the electronics that make the oven work.When they don't, it doesn't.At first, they said that the F1 error message that appears on thedisplay (along with an annoying beeping) was a sign that the "clock"needed replacing. (The "clock" is a large circuit board that is thecore of the oven control system.) We have replaced it three times. Itstill does the F1 error thing after being plugged-in a few days.Then they said it was the glass touch-pad and attached circuitry thatwas the problem (and just couldn't imagine why earlier factory servicepeople said it was the clock). So we replaced the touchpad panel.Twice. Still shows the same failure pattern. So mostly we leave itunplugged. Nice, but expensive, pan storage appliance.The "clocks" and the touchpads cost about $100 each. They do not fixthe problem. Without a functional clock and touchpad, you don't havean oven that works. They have never issued a recall on this product.Our workaround for the past several years has been to only try to usethe damn thing once each year, at either Thanksgiving or Christmas.The drill goes like this: plug it in, set the clock (so the oven willwork), program the oven and insert bird immediately. Hope and praythat the SOB doesn't do its F1 failure trick before the bird iscooked. It didn't this year. Major problem.I called Maytag customer service (for about the 18th time), and toldthem of the problem. They don't have a fix, sorry. So again we havehad to make a sacred vow: never again to buy or own a product made byMaytag or any related company.Anybody have a suggestion on what to do with a half-cooked turkey?Happy Thanksgiving,Caveat
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