On 3/11/07, david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lee Revell wrote: > On 3/10/07, carmen <_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> everything is made by Compal, Quanta, and ASUS. can you really >> discriminate by western "brand" ? >> >> if Apple is selling a notebook for $1099 and HP is selling the same >> thing for $599, i'd get the HP - call me crazy > > How do you know it's the same thing? Even if the specs are identical, > I would expect Apple to have a much better QA process to catch things > like singing capacitors that most PC buyers don't care about. > > Although, Apple's quality control has slipped a lot lately - the 2006 > Macbook I am typing this on had to be returned to the shop to fix the > infamous "random shutdown disorder". At least it didn't set your house on fire! (Google search for "Dell laptop house fire" or something like that ... )
Well from what I read, it could have... the random shutdowns were caused by a short circuit (aka cheap components). Anyway I expect this stuff from PC vendors who compete on price, not from Apple... Lee
