Ooh cat, them's fightin' words :)
On the LaCie's, I ambivalent. I have one more than 7 years old that runs great. On the other hand I have two newer ones that I constantly keep my eye on and mirror for safety. I just put a new iMAc on my desk. Was having intermitent hangs for a couple of days. Knowing the recent mount problems with one of the newer LaCies. I unplugged it and now everything is great. iPhone batery - have to agree there for people that would keep a phone long enough to need to replace battery. great interface and apps available but evan as an Apple groupie since '87, am looking to get a Blackberry Storm. Equipment - Apple's still the best. Since '87 have only replaced one Mac out of necessity. All PCs in the house have constantly been replaced out of necessity. I've seen folks drom their laptops at airports and they are toast, inside and out. I've dropped mine laptop seeral times on the hard tile floor up in Manchester, NH airport without nary a scratch. -no broken bits, no start-up or operation problems. Because of cramped compter workspace at home, my laptop overhangs the desk edge a little - but enough for it to topple when one of the cats walks across it. So many times I've come down in the morning to find it on the floor or dangling from the side cables, everything fine and dandy. The Apple Store "Genius Bar" is somewhat an oxymoron, but they've solved the issues I have brought to them quickly, correctly and=2 0economically (see my previous post). However, while looking for another external drive I looked them over in the Apple Store. The ones they had would not be my first choice and were also greatly overpriced. When I said this to the salesperson that asked it they could help, he got annoyed and insulting - funny, I felt insulted that they were asking those prices for something that can be purchased for much lower prices. Apple Store "salesmen" - please point me to any commercial brick and mortor where they are not. Best Buy beinng the biggest offender. In almost all circumstances, why does XP run faster on Intel Macs booted natively than on comparable PCs? This also supported by PC Magazine. Equipment not made with customer in mind? - who popularized the GUI interface (not invented it)? Why have Macs almost always been plug-in networking, while PCs lagged so far behind in that? Criminny, who would waste space on floppy drives in a laptop? Let's face it, it's well known Microsoft and PC manufactures have been catching up to Apple innovations or inclussions for over twenty years. In the early years of USB for home computing, so many PCs had the plugs but didn't support it, gee, not Apple. Apple has always strived to make computing accessible to the masses. Many IT people dislike them because they are a danger to part of their job security. Don't need a degree to run one, network one, or keep it running. Apple exposes the "Man behind the curtain" for what he is - a sham. I've already told my wife (after the last PC went south), no more PCs in the house. If we need to run Windows, it will still be on a Mac. My take. JoeG -----Original Message----- From: cat <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, 16 May 2009 4:19 am Subject: [Papermodels II 36566] Re: Dang ... [email protected] wrote: > Remember last year I informed the group that my LaCie external hard > drive had failed? With this discussion involving saving to discs and > external Hard Drives, I figured you would be interested in “The Rest > Of The Story.” I was under the impression that paying hundreds of > dollars for a “storage unit” hard drive was a smart move. When my > LaCie failed and I e-mailed this international group of paper > modelers; much was said about external hard drives piled up as door > stops; the following days I was more than surprised to read about all > the external drive failures experienced by our members. The MAC > store people never mentioned such failures. > The MAC Service Department charged $60.00 bucks and did not even open > the case. All they did was plug it in and tell me the data was > unrecoverable. We had a LOT of trouble and failures with LaCie devices as have many other shops and strongly recommend they be avoided at all costs. Also we avoid the Apple racketeers because they are not only hideously overpriced and even=2 0more locked down than MS ever was and their "service" a joke. Also their "recommendations" were clueless as their people are obviously salesmen rather than real techs and make their recommendations based more on the price than the item's serviceability and they lie like rugs. Just last Saturday I got rid of the last of the near useless MACs and now run Intel based systems running mostly Unix/Linux with some MS based since there are some high end softwares which require MS. I have to admit that Apple sure makes nice looking stuff but they are definitely not made with the customer in mind (what legitimate maker makes a cell phone which does not have a changeable battery? How about a music player which plays with a dangerously high playback level?) cat --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
