On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 7:44 PM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've had a dozen macs. No failures other than hard drives. My daughter's > i-book failed when she tripped over the ethernet cord and broke the port off > the motherboard. I thought that was crappy design, but nothing else has ever > failed. > > Surprised you had to go back to the failure issue from the i Tunes > discussion. Too much Apple anger out there, guys. It's not healthy:-). > > Paul
Not surprised there, you're talking about a reasonably small sample size from a reasonably reliable maker. I'm surprised that Joseph hasn't if he was supporting or administrating them professionally though. I can just about count all my personal hardware failures on a pair of hands, and almost half that is Seagate IDE/SATA drives from 1997-on. Other than that, I've had a PSU failure, a few couple fans, two mainboard failures and a pair of optical drives along witha couple non-Seagate Drive failures. One of the optical drives was the only major brand-name failure I've had aside from drive failures (Two of the Seagates were in LaCie enclosures, one was in an HP Laptop, one was actually purchased directly and was the first of the lot and the drive in my PowerMac 8500 croaked). Oh, and an iPod Shuffle that locks up whenever it sees a VBR MP3. Note that when I was actively supprting Mac's at a VAR, a dozen machines was a week or two's worth (not all hardware failure, mostly software issues or upgrades/installations). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
