ITM, Obviously your experience in the PC World leaves a lot to be desired. But I'd be interested to know if you were purchasing off brand components? There are different quality levels of PCs unlike Macs. A Mac is a Mac is a Mac, right? That can't be said about PCs. And your pirated version of the OS might be a cause of some of your reinstalling problems too. FWIW, the OEM version of XP Pro (for a new computer) is only ~$155, depending on where you buy it-not anything close to $500. You haven't mentioned what period of time this stuff went wacko on you either but all manufacturers of new equipment give at least a year and some go as long as 3. Some dealers do as well. Am not trying to convince anyone a PC is better than a Mac-just trying to get the facts straight on how things "hit the fan" in your case. If my clients complained about stuff like the below, I'd have no hair left on my face or head (but I do!). Better luck with your next purchase. Regards,
Jeff Slyn, Owner SLYN Systems & Peripherals (502) 426-5469 serving Kentuckiana clients 7 days a week since 1985! On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:21:40 EDT IamTehMonkay at aol.com writes: I definately can say that I prefer in every way (except for gaming for obvious reasons) to use my PowerBook G3 to my 1.125Ghz PC(no they don't sell those overclocked.) Besides the fact that I have to reinstall every other week, it takes forever to start up and that if you install too many apps or the regristry gets too big you have stability issues. Although I have an illegal cracked version of XP Pro (Yeah, like i'm gonna pay $500 for this piece of crap) it's still a pain to setup and takes an hour and a half! Not to mention random crashes happen with image editing when its both overclocked and normal sppeed, not hardware issue, it's the highest quality Athlon Motherboard you can get. If my parents didn't need AOL i'd be running linux the whole time. Did I mention before this I went through 3 other motherboards that died due to... Incompatible PCI Cards (what, this kills the motherboard? since when?) Faulty Power Supply(12 volt randomly raised to 15 and dropped to 10 at certain points) Heat Sink clip snapped(also caused my good processor to die, these things need so much force on the retaining clips when you move them they'll just break) Although i'm much less worried about all this now that I hardly use it. Let's see what the total cost of repairs have been on my PC compared to anyof my macs PC New motherboard $95 New MotherBoard $115 New MotherBoard $130 New Video Card $70 New RAM $70 New CD-RW $80 New Power Supply $40 Mac LC N/A PowerBook 1400 Screen Backlight $20 PowerBook G3 Replacement Plastics $50 New CD-ROM $80 Oh yeah, look which computer's cheaper now O_o If Apple would reduce their quality standards, then yeah, they could sell computers for $300 and laptops for $600, but we'd need repairs done every 2 weeks. Yes,my friend literally had another thing break on his dell notebook every 2 weeks, and they always had the boxes for pickup left outside at 6:00 AM Then it gets returned in worse condition than before. And to think I was becoming persuaded to buy an opteron 240 System O_o... Maybe I ranted a little but I don't think I really wanna use a PC at all anymore. Jeff Slyn, Owner SLYN Systems & Peripherals (502) 426-5469 serving Kentuckiana clients 7 days a week since 1985! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20030913/6619ecea/attachment.html
