On May 17, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Peter K. Stys wrote:
I'm curious about people's experience. We run many Macs in the lab, and recently I've been upgrading people's machines with the new iMacs. In the last few months, 3 of them have failed: - one smoked (literally) - one's video failed - one's LCD lamp failed plus: - 2 Xserve RAID drive units failed (lucky for the "RAID" part)
I don't have much recent experience -- my newest Mac is the PowerBook 12" from early 2005 (which has been running *great*!).
In the past 12 years, with 8 personal computers and double that for computers at work that I managed, I have only had one Macintosh that had a problem... and that was an 2nd gen iMac CRT which had the video card go out. My brother has a lemon iBook G4 which has had the logic board go out 3 times (all under extended AppleCare warranty).
If most of your equipment was in the same room or building, you might want to have maintenance staff come out and check monitor the electrical wall sockets power voltage. At least for the iMac issues, it could be possible that there were power spikes which caused the components to fail.
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