Power Mac G5 Reliability(not so good)

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[Halfmanhalfamazing]

the Power Mac G5's 17% first-year failure rate remains far higher than the industry average of 5% (see Gartner's recent report on PC hardware reliability, linked below). If Apple is to maintain its premium pricing, it should provide premium reliability. As things stand, high Power Mac prices must include high warranty service costs built-in.

With an overall failure rate of 23%, a quarter of which occur outside of Apple's 1-year warranty, and an average of 1.29 repairs per affected unit implying repeat problems, Power Macs are neither cheap for Apple to service after the sale, nor cheap for buyers. Power comes at a cost.

[coconutt2000]

I can guarantee moms everywhere would find it easier to just look for those numbers upon reboot than to worry about what a control panel is and which control panel needs to be accessed, or even what's a command line and what's an ipconfig.

The problem with your logic about it being easier on reboot is that most people aren't aware that they need to know their IP address until after their computer is booted up.

As for the difference between ipconfig and a control panel, that's like the difference between using vi and Microsoft Word to write a letter. Or Pine and Outlook to manage email. The graphical interface is easier to intuit, whereas the console method requires specific knowledge of the commands. For most computer users - intuiting is much preferred over referring to a manual for a console command.

[Old_Mil]

Hey Mac, if you want me to buy a computer from you, stop insulting me and actually tell me something about your freaking product!!

Without a doubt, apple advertising is awful.

That having been said, I'm a Macintosh user - and I really don't see why with Apple's introduction of Intel based systems that run both Mac OS and Windows XP natively that anyone would buy a computer system (Dell/Gateway/etc) where they are restricted to doing their business on a single OS that is susceptible to viruses, spyware, and security problems.

Mac OS is Unix based and is without a doubt a superior OS and realistically you can do whatever you need to do in Mac OS natively except for the extremely rare specialized business app. For that, you can boot into Windows.

Switching makes sense.

[mjwise]

Linked in the spirit of bandwidth preservation:

Step 1

Step 2

How hard is that?!

[Leonard210]

Were too! Were not! Were too! Were not! Were too! Were not! Those commercials were too funny, even though I'm a Mac user! (Is that enough of a Mac vs PC war for ya? :-)

Thanks for the videos. I loved them!

[Question_Assumptions]

Here is an example - try to determine your current IP address on Windows. Or call your mom and ask what her IP address is. It's much easier to do simple things like that on a Mac.

Try to configure a PC to use a network printer that's not connected to a Windows printer server. In Windows, to add an IPP printer (over the network), you need to select the "Connected to my PC" option, not the networked printer option, to find the IPP configuration. Yeah, that makes sense.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

^^^^^^^^^^The problem with your logic about it being easier on reboot is that most people aren't aware that they need to know their IP address until after their computer is booted up.^^^^^^^^^^^

I know that. I was .... oh, and BTW you posted to the wrong peeps. Swordmaker wasn't involved in that argument AFAIK.

But anyways, I was trying to stick to the given example as best as possible.

The base of the argument was a non-technical mom. She wouldn't know what a command line is was the point of the original poster. I was merely pointing out that a non-technical mom wouldn't know what a control panel is.

"Mom, just reboot your machine and look for the only string of numbers that you see"

Is by far the easiest out of the three possible scenarios. In most cases, you don't have a need to know your IP.

^^^^^^^^^^For most computer users - intuiting is much preferred over referring to a manual for a console command.^^^^^^^^^

Agreed.

[coconutt2000]

BTW you posted to the wrong peeps.

Sorry, my bad.

:-)