Hmmm. Since 1984 I've had a Macintosh, Macintosh Plus, a IIci, G3 Desktop, iLamp, current G4 iBook and current iMac. The power supply expired on the original Macintosh (apparently a common problem), the hard disks needed replacing in the G3 and the iLamp and the power supply and power something (Sam knows what!) failed in my iMac. Hard disks can fail in anything and they're fairly generic I would have thought, so that means two power supply failures in 25 years which is not bad I reckon. I've certainly had more varied problems with work PCs over the same time period. I'm happy.
Stephen On 20 Oct 2009, at 08:19, Ranulph Glanville wrote: > > Following the announcement of Apple's wonderful profits, a word: > > The last 3 Macs I have bought have each had a series of faults > involving them being in Mac hospital for several visits and sometimes > for long periods. My TimeCapsule is waiting to be replaced under > guarantee. I don't have an iPod or iPhone: the only other Apple > hardware I have is a wireless keyboard and mouse which seem fine. (I > have a long history of hardware problems with Apple kit.) > > Sometimes I wonder if I'm somehow electronically charged, or > radioactive. My brother in law, who programs for Apple, says that if > you give me a program and I've not crashed it in 15 minutes, it's > legally stable. > > Alternatively, it's not exactly an outstanding record. If Apple are > the Rolls Royces of computers, what on earth are the Ford Prefects? > > Ranulph > > > The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
