On May 1, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > 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.
Same here. Almost all my computer problems have been hard drives, most of them Seagates. > 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). I have a LaCie DVD burner that doesnt't seem to work any more. Haven't fooled with it enough to be sure it's dead, since I don't really need it any more. But I guess I should look into it. Although I've fooled with computers for thirty years, I'm not at all knowledgeable. Just kind of amused to see so much anger over brands. Paul > 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. -- 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.
