I can agree with what you said here too. I have a desktop that I bought in 2000 that works just fine except a disk is stuck in one of the drives, and nothing much works on ME anymore, I tend to forget about it unless I need music....
Help me support Autism research! Join my team! http://www.walknowforautism.org/stlouis/blubiconsbuddies http://stampmine.blogspot.com/http://samsphotopage.blogspot.com/ --- On Wed, 10/28/09, William Robb <war...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: William Robb <war...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: OT PC Surgery > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 1:12 PM > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra Hermann" > Subject: Re: OT PC Surgery > > > There is also the argument that a mac last for many more > years than a pc. They told me that overall my mac would last > approx. 6 years. I may need to eventually get an > external hard drive but the equipment part will last. When > my dad figured out how much it costs and how many years it > will last it was approx. 75 cents per day to own the > machine... The guy at the mac store told me the same > thing. I asked why I couldn't just pay him 75 cents > per day as long as the machine worked. He really > didn't take well to that idea. > > > That's rubbish. My first PC is over 10 years old now and > still ticking along on all original equipment. > My second one is still in service, at 7 years of age, and > my third one, which is now my back-up box still is working > fine, although I had to replace a power supply that failed. > (It turned out to be a cheap piece of junk, the replacement > is good) > As with everything, you get what you pay for. Mac is pretty > much all proprietary, even with the switch to intel chips. > You don't get to pick and choose component brands, you take > what Apple gives you, and they aren't skimping. > PCs have a much broader range of usable components, some > very good, some very very bad. People choose to buy the > cheapest crap they can, load an OS onto it and then watch > their hardware melt down. > Buy quality components and PC's are reliable machines, and > are still less money than a Mac. > Often, it isn't a machine going soft that causes it to be > taken out of service so much as the computer world just > advances far enough that it doesn't make sense to keep using > the thing. > > William Robb > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
