Hi When I worked in the computer room of a local University we had 66 PC's on a network. They were always going wrong. My job was to fix it. Then they got the manufactureres in under a maintenance contract and I was not needed. I found I could not do the work. Happiness is not found in a PC lab either. Chris -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lea Murphy Sent: 11 January 2010 15:20 To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: Re: Help me, help my son (timing of new laptop purchase) 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
