I've had macs for 16 years or so - one of the early iMacs, a cube, an iBook, a macbook and an intel iMac. The only problem was the cube - and that was caused by putting a DVD in from a wrong region then a UK region then the wrong one again - which messed up the DVD drive - it would only read DVD's from that region ever after, so it had to have a new DVD drive.
In fact, they have been so very reliable that whenever I hear friends moaning about how often they have problems with their PCs, I tell them to change to mac on the grounds that they never go wrong. A friend in the village I live in makes his living repairing computers and says he HATES mac - because if everyone had one, he wouldn't have enough work! I sold the first iMac to buy the Cube - 3 gig hard drive seemed to become so small! The cube went as I wanted to go from G4 to intel. Same with the iBook - to go from G3 to Intel. And the reason I bought mac in the first place was hearing from the few mac owning friends how trouble free they were, against the constant stream of anguish from the many more PC using friends I have. Any problems I've had have been due to my own ineptitude and lack of computer savvy. And this forum has been wonderful at helping me sort it out - not one problem unresolved! Thanks all!!! I think you've been unlucky big time. Andrew Having said that - am I tempting fate? Will I have mega trouble now??!! On 11 Nov 2010, at 7:08 am, Tony Crooks wrote: > > On 11 Nov 2010, at 06:45, Ranulph Glanville wrote: > >> How is it that I have so many problems, and apparently others do not? Or are >> others less pissed-off when they are left without their office, workshop, >> whatever for a long time. > > Over the last 15+ years I've had 2 Apple computers have problems - a white > eMac that had a new logic board replaced FOC as it was in an Apple > replacement programme and a white Intel iMac, the one I'm sitting at now, > which required a graphics board covered by AppleCare. I know Robert Harding > moderately well and in conversation they are of the opinion that there have > been a few instances where specific models have had a high incidence of > problems. Historically Apple's practice of using repaired components for > replacement parts has got it into trouble - I understood this mostly applied > to logic boards. > > By way of comparison, over the last 5 years my wife has had 7 laptops from > the school she teaches at fail, mostly Toshibas, and have to be replaced with > new units. Not repaired but replaced. As each time a replacement is required > it seems to take ESCC weeks to engage brain to effect this and she was given > an old banger that takes forever to startup, never moves out of first gear, > and taking about 3 minutes to load Word. In expectation of failure, for the > last two years she keeps all her documentation and work on a regularly backed > up external drive so that she can use one of our MacBooks in time of need. > She'd think your experience is almost nirvana, Ranulph. > -- > Tony Crooks > <mailto: [email protected]> > 53 Mendip Avenue > Eastbourne > BN23 8HP > > Mob: 07590508079 > Tel: 01323-460789 > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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.
