Steve Schear wrote:
Steve Schear wrote:[snip] I've been watching for a lot of years, and I'm sick of those bastards at Apple. Those scumbags not only make a flimsy and unreliable computer, they won't repair the machine either. Too bad Ted Kazynski(sp?) didn't have a grudge against Apple, the scumbag creeps.
I'm sorry your ownership experience hasn't been pleasant. I've owned six and installed a hundred or so as a consultant (along with many Wintel systems) with great reliability. Only one of the machines I know of has needed service, and this because it was operated in a dirty shop-floor environment w/o an enclosure or even periodic internal cleaning. Since I've not had to have one repaired under warranty I can't vouch for their committment to good service. I'm puzzeled at your reaction.
I hope you don't mind my adding this to the list, but since I posted something very pertinent several days ago and got *no* reaction, and since it was something very significant, I wanna try it one more time: This experience on your part, of installing 100-plus Macs with only one needing service, is beyond amazing. Most computer people will readily admit that HP (for example) is the best, reliability-wise, yet I have purchased quite a few of their computers and major peripherals over the past 20 years, and I have experienced an approximate 40% (!) defective rate during the one-year warranty period, more than 30% falling within the first three months. As to why I still use their stuff - it's because the others are worse, a fact which is almost universally agreed on. How can this possibly be, you ask? Could it be really bad luck? No. Could it be mishandling? No. For a reality check, another famed electronics vendor, Sony, has the same problem, but even worse than HP. Unfortunately, in the Sony case, their products don't wear well after fixing, excepting a couple of their rather expensive "professional" series products. I suspect that the 100-plus Apple owners don't really use the machines, otherwise, if they were so reliable, why does Apple desperately avoid repairing their own products, when HP has provided top-level professional technicians (not boys in dusty back rooms of cheap-ass computer stores) to fix their products, and done so consistently ever since the beginning of the PC business in 1966?