Daniel M posted: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'm very surprised to read this post. I thought Mac owners understood they were > > > not allowed to admit publicly that Mac computers EVER have problems. > > First, its Microsoft, not Apple, that tries to comtrol everything its users do. > > Second, although we have Macs at home, at the office we are all Windoze, so i'm well > aware of how rare it is to have problems with a mac, as compared to a PC, and > therefore not at all reticent to admit that occasionally even a mac can have a > hardware problem. > Well, it's like this. Your story reminded me of a joke I once heard, and it was such a close parallel that I found it funny. The joke is -- A man's Rolls-Royce broke down on the road and he called the company for help. They sent out an unmarked tractor-trailer, pulled the Rolls into the trailer, repaired it and sent him on his merry way. He contacted them again and said, Thanks a lot for getting me back on the road when my Rolls broke down, but you haven't sent me the bill, what do I owe you? And their crisp reply was, "We have no record of a Rolls-Royce ever breaking down."
(You didn't say whether the box Apple sent for the malfunctioning Mac was marked or not.) At home we've always had PCs running Windows. I used to work in a newsroom full of Macs. The PCs at home gave trouble from time to time, the Macs at work gave trouble from time to time, and in that entire three-year period I found neither platform to be more reliable than the other. But I have NEVER heard a Mac owner admit those machines can fail. The only reason I know they do is that I've seen it happen -- over, and over again. So my JOKING conclusion was that Mac owners are bound by some kind of gag order.
