----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra Hermann"
Subject: Re: OT PC Surgery
There is also the argument that a mac last for many more years than a pc. They told me that overall my mac would last approx. 6 years. I may need to eventually get an external hard drive but the equipment part will last. When my dad figured out how much it costs and how many years it will last it was approx. 75 cents per day to own the machine... The guy at the mac store told me the same thing. I asked why I couldn't just pay him 75 cents per day as long as the machine worked. He really didn't take well to that idea.
That's rubbish. My first PC is over 10 years old now and still ticking along on all original equipment. My second one is still in service, at 7 years of age, and my third one, which is now my back-up box still is working fine, although I had to replace a power supply that failed. (It turned out to be a cheap piece of junk, the replacement is good) As with everything, you get what you pay for. Mac is pretty much all proprietary, even with the switch to intel chips. You don't get to pick and choose component brands, you take what Apple gives you, and they aren't skimping. PCs have a much broader range of usable components, some very good, some very very bad. People choose to buy the cheapest crap they can, load an OS onto it and then watch their hardware melt down. Buy quality components and PC's are reliable machines, and are still less money than a Mac. Often, it isn't a machine going soft that causes it to be taken out of service so much as the computer world just advances far enough that it doesn't make sense to keep using the thing.
William Robb
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