On 12/26/01 10:03 AM, "Dan Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Macs *are* less prone to technical problems! For example, I have this Beige
> G3/266 desktop here, running OS 9.1, and it crashes, on an average, 2 times
> a month. If I had OS X, the whole thing would crash almost never, from what
> I've read. The one way the whole system would crash would probably be a
> kernel panic. (Correct me if I'm wrong, Sam.) Now, a PC, it would probably
> crash, on an AVERAGE, 3 times a day. And that's on a good day.
At NYU, where I previously went to school, I worked at ResNet, supporting
the campus-wide student LAN (wired dorms, etc). A year before I started
working there, a survey had been taken on campus that revealed that the
PC/Mac ratio was almost 50/50. (As an interesting aside, my interview for
the job went something like this... "Hello Miss Luis... what is your
platform of choice?" "MacOS." "You do Macs?? You're hired!!!") I worked at
ResNet for almost a year, and saw Windows distress calls outnumber Mac
distress calls at *least* ten to one. A search in Remedy (the software used)
for all open Mac-related cases typically brought up about 5-10. As I was
"the Mac girl" I went on all the Mac house calls... but since there were so
few, I often ended up having to go on Windows calls too, since the 'to-do'
board was always full of them, without enough people to get to them in a
timely manner. Also, in the office itself, there were two "top-of-the-line"
PCs and a Quadra 700. The Quadra crashed almost never... the PCs, at least
three times a week.
I kept my mouth shut and smiled smugly as some of my co-workers delightedly
made fun of Macs...
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