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I was using a borrowed PC laptop and for whatever reason was unable to send the e-mail as plain text as demanded by the iMac list.
That's because PC email programs, like PCs themselves, are hard to use and figure out beyond the default values. I'm reasonably sure (but can't say from experience) that most PC email programs DO have an option to let you send plain-text emails -- they just don't make it easy to find. Let me guess, you were using Outlook/Outlook Express, right?
In looking at new PC laptops BTW find they are far and away lower in price
than comparable Macs,
No they are not.
PC laptops quite simply DO NOT COMPARE to Mac laptops. There are literally DOZENS of features in Mac laptops that simply DO NOT EXIST in the default configurations of PC laptops. Add those features or their nearest approximate in, and lo and behold Mac laptops win the price comparison, sometimes quite dramatically.
Don't believe me? Read it for yourself: http://www.systemshootouts.org/
Here's a specific example: http://www.systemshootouts.org/shootouts/laptop/2004/1019_lt1300.html
and for my limited usage am really wondering if I should revert back to a PC...
Well, if ALL YOU DO on a laptop is read your mail and surf the net, then yes I guess you COULD find a PC laptop for much cheaper than a Mac laptop, it's true. But then you have to figure in how much all those tech support visits and calls, all that time waiting on hold, and all that time and money spent on anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-hacker software, plus updates.
For me, that stuff makes even a FREE pc laptop pretty unattractive. But that's me.
Am wondering should I just keep the cheap PC laptop and sell the Mac?
You're asking this question on a mac list, what answer do you actually expect??
Without knowing what you're actually doing to the machine to "abuse" it so much, there's no way I can offer you any guidance on what model might be best for you, and with your hostile attitude to OS X, I'd say that things will never change much till you lose THAT issue, once that happens things will "miraculously" start working better I'd wager.
I had purchased the extended warranty for the iBook this past spring;... along with your tendency not to read directions or anything including on or in the packaging of what you buy. The reason they don't do this automatically is rather obvious: you may not be buying the machine for your own use! Rather different than a car, the vast majority of which are either purchased by the user or purchased with the user present.
before the one year initial warranty expired. Thought all was well and good.
Seems "I" had to register the computer myself with Apple!
As mentioned earlier have had horrible hardware luck with Apple products.If it "dies" before the warranty expires, then yes. If it's after the warranty expires, then no.
I have roughly two years and a bit extended warranty remaining;
if the iBook dies again, which I suspect it shall
before the warranty is expired, will Apple repair the equipment?
Suspect warranty
work is optional work, "they" don't have to repair same if the suspect it is
throwing good money after bad.
Generally, Apple repairs things under warranty UNLESS it's obvious that the machine has been deliberately abused. They have to have this rule, or everyone who discovered so much as a single dead pixel on their screen would just throw the machine down a flight of stairs and force Apple to replace it.
If a single machine comes in for repeated non-abuse-related repairs (defective units), Apple will eventually replace the unit with a new one. This happened to a friend of mine and yes, it DID require three visits and some phone calls -- but they are getting a vastly better model than the one they bought as a result.
If they strongly suspect or can prove abuse or fraud, then yes. Otherwise, they generally don't do that.Even though I've paid for the warranty suspect Apple can just as easily return the balance of my warranty money and tell me goodbye.
My seven year old printer would require different drivers,
Oh yes, I forgot to add that the source of a lot of your problems also stems (in addition to your user practices, bad attitude about OS X and inability to read directions) from your insistence on using outdated, obsolete equipment OS X was not designed to accommodate. Listen, I keep old stuff around too, but I *match it up* with equipment from the same era so that it works right! SCSI stuff goes with OS 9, ADB/serial stuff go with OS 8 or 7 machines. OS X machines use USB and FW, and that's it.
So DON'T USE THEM if you don't want to, but don't keep tossing system-level stuff in the trash because you THINK it's connected to these programs! Your own track record PROVES that you don't know what you're doing when you monkey around in the system, so STOP DOING THAT. It's really just that simple.I don't require all the software included with OS X, including iPhoto (my old digital camera works just fine with 9.2) iChat (who has the time to waste talking/writing to others on a computer. garbage (to me) such as iPhoto (and my old digital camera won't like anything new under OSX)
oh and finally I use an older version of Quark. And the Quark I use came from a friend many years ago version 3?)
Let's recap:
1. I use my equipment all day every day, treating it roughly.
2. I hate OS X and monkey around in the system, removing things I don't think need to be there (but don't know what I'm doing).
3. I never read manuals or directions/instructions.
4. I use outdated, obsolete peripheral equipment.
5. I wouldn't know what a "backup strategy" or a "maintenance routine" was if it bit me on the butt.
6. I use pirated, outdated software.
... and yet you're mystified as to why you have problems.
Judging from the normal traffic on this and other lists I'm on, it's just you. Of course, if other people combined all five qualities I list above, perhaps they could replicate your run of "bad luck."Anybody else have simialr problems or is it just me?
I don't agree that your needs mandate a Powerbook. If I've deciphered your post correctly, you currently have a repaired, working iBook. Why not keep it while it's under warranty and re-evaluate your needs when it's about to go out of warranty?One person suggested I look at Linux, as an operating system. I guess what gets me is a basic PC laptop here is roughly $1800.00 a Powerbook 15 inch with Superdrive is $3299.00.
Given my history with Apple products am really wondering...for the long term.
Given your APPROACH to computers, I'd suggest that you buy yourself a typewriter, an abacus, and an Etch-a-Sketch ... that should be all the "computer" you need.
_Chas_
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