On 22/12/2009, at 7:55 PM, b...@bensand.com wrote: > lol, apple hardware is the worst I've ever experienced. macbook > optical and hard drive dead < 2 years, razor sharp edges on white > macbook (had to file them back as they kept cutting my hands, bits of > case chipping off after a year of use (only discovered it was a known > bug after warranty was up).
As a counterpoint: I've had a large assortment of Dell, HP, Sony, Toshiba laptops and desktops over the last decade, and found all of them to be utter rubbish hardware-wise compared to almost all of the Apple hardware I've had. Admittedly, I did have one Powerbook that had a serious problem, which was then fixed for free under warranty. I'm sorry that your experience of one model (the cheapest they sold) was less than perfect and has emotionally scarred you for life. Perhaps some therapy? > glorified fashion accessories in my book :-) Or competent and reliable unix-based systems in other people's books. > Their compatability with MS office formats is handy, but office on > windows is slightly better for that anyway Yes, it's true, Microsoft still cripples parts of MS Office for Mac deliberately in parts. Being able to do UPDATE or CREATE calls via ODBC in MS Excel is still missing for no good reason. > good machines to give relos who don't get IT, but so far linux has > proven more reliable for them in most situations. Sorry, which linux? Which hardware? For what purpose? If you're talking about running it as a production server, I don't think anyone here's going to disagree with you, except perhaps some hardcore solaris nerds. I think we're all in agreeance there. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
