If I had to do the work I do on a pc instead of a mac I'd find a different job that didn't involve computers. They really ARE that much better. Lea On Jan 11, 2010, at 9:10 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > 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 > do great in the small things www.leamurphy.com
