True! On Wednesday, December 26, 2001, at 09:42 AM, Amber Rhea wrote: > 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... > > -- > Amber Rhea [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "I like having a machine called 'elvis' on the network because > that way, I can say 'ping elvis' and have it come back with 'elvis > is alive.'" > - Carl Shipley > > > > -- > MacNetwork is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > XRouter Pro | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers! > Dr. Bott | Only $199 <http://www.drbott.com/prod/MIH130.html> > > Now shipping! Farallon Wireless SkyLINE PCI Card for Mac Desktops! > <http://www.farallon.com/le/skyline/pci/index.html> > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > MacNetwork list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/macnet.html> > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macnetwork%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! > <http://www.applelinks.com> >
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