I purchased my Mac in October 2007 and have never reinstalled the OS. I've upgraded the OS a few times, and copied it to a new hard drive when I upgraded to a larger one, but never reinstalled :-) The laptop was thinner and lighter (especially the power supply) than the 17" Dell I was issued at the time. I was fortunate to work for a company that let me use my personal laptop for work and they let me return the Dell. It saved them money and saved me the headaches of dealing with Windows on a regular basis. :-)
Brian On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Dieselhead <126die...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yep, then there is dell that will let you talk to somebody in India. And > then there are the times they (Hp, Dell or ?) claim it is the OS. Call M$ > and you get to talk to somebody in India. If you get get them to escalate, > then you get to talk to another schmuck in india the next day. After > wasting days and money, you end up wiping the drive and installing the OS > and all software again, then it is hours of downloading, restarting and > whatnot to get all the updates. > > Yes, OS 10 and the hardware have some idiosyncrasies, but M$ and generic > hardware have a LOT of idiosyncrasies > > Only time I have reloaded OS 10 is after a drive dies. Same drives as in > generic PC hardware (Well maybe Apple uses higher MTBF drives. They don't > use bottom of the barrel drives.) > > > > That depends. >> >> If you are a corporate or education customer, there are qualified VARs >> that provide support. >> >> And as an HP certified technician who used to support a part of a 40,000+ >> node enterprise, I can tell you that the guy who comes to fix your HP stuff >> is most likely not an HP employee, but a VAR that provides third party >> support for them. >> >> I have not been impressed with the level of service for HP VARs. one of >> the reasons we certify in-house. >> >> Dan >> > > ______________________________**_________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives > http://www.okiebenz.com/**archive/<http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/**mailman/listinfo/mercedes_**okiebenz.com<http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
