Laptops get more abuse because they get beat around more than a desktop, but your Mini has the same quality of hardware that is in their laptops. Which is to say pretty good, but not “mil spec.”
I have owned several Apple laptops ever since my Powerbook 150. Never had problem 1 with my Powerbooks. My first (G3) MacBook was repaired by Apple for free a few times and they finally gave me a brand new G4 one. Their experiment in “cheap” laptop was not super. My 2007 MacBook Pro had a mother board and a graphics card (because I used it all day long to drive THREE external monitors, I think I exceeded its design specs) replaced for free and it finally died due to a bad battery that pushed up on the mother board. That was years after it was replaced by its successor, though. But by then it was 7 years old. My current laptop is a long-in-the tooth 6-yrs-old MBP and works great, and I have never had any problems with it. I guess I have been luckier than you with laptops, Nora, but the user satisfaction statistics for Apple kit tend more in my direction than yours overall. Sorry about your luck. Jonathan > On Aug 11, 2017, at 12:16 PM, Nora Probasco <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've had 2 MacPro laptops that failed after 2 years. I am working from a Mac > mini right now as I am afraid to buy another laptop... -- Jonathan Fletcher [email protected] Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group Next Meeting: 8/22/17 _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
