On Mon, January 11, 2010 00:48, karl shah-jenner wrote: > I run a school with a 40-computer inventory of Chinese-made Macs... > iMacs, Macbooks etc. We have 25 iMacs in the lab and there are always at > least 4 in the shop getting stuff fixed. Drives that die... chips that > overheat, displays that pop up green or don't come up at all, filing > systems that get corrupted... It's a nightmare! I have never had so much > student work lost. > > They are troublesome, unreliable and have forced me to think seriously > about changing to windows for the first time in 15 years. I hear my Mac-owning friends talking about amazing amounts of trouble, multiple trips to the shop to get things fixed, replacing motherboards, rescuing data off hard drives all the time. And they're less than 10% of my friends, though they account for better than half the computer horror stories. Don't know what it is, but two jobs ago I also watched the 2x as expensive Macs the designers insisted on cost about half the tech-support budget -- when they were less than 1/4 of the computers in the company. But you can't talk to a real Mac enthusiast; it's a religious thing. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
