That may have been years ago, but I know quite a few people who’ve had just as many problems with their mac computers as others do with their windows computers.
Like bad hard drives, can’t update, bad updates, software issues, power supply problems, bad memory, etc.
Every system can have issues, especially cheap garbage like $299 stuff. Nothing is perfect. Just like car owners who “never have problems”, it’s all smoke and mirrors. They are afraid to admit they may have bought something that isn’t so “superior” to “jaded” competing products after all.
Well, I haven't. I'm a former NT and Windows server administrator, and oversaw techs fixing desktop problems. A lot more goes wrong with Windows machines than Macs. True, bad hard drives affect all types of computers. But Macs don't have as many problems afflicting other machines when it comes to hardware and software. There's an occasional rare problem like what came up last week when a neighbor had me troubleshoot his iMac. It was a bad graphics board, which Apple is replacing free within four years of sale (well beyond the warranty).
Other problems affecting both computers is due to stupidity or an unwillingness to do safe practices. Such as the time I helped a department fix their "busted" server and network. Turned out that their admin left a year before that, and besides not hiring a new admin, none of the personnel deleted any files. The server ran out of space! All the staff were idiots. I had to teach them to regularly purge or archive files. Anyway, fixes, updates and driver issues on non-Mac machines seem more problematic.
Nor have I experienced that. . . and I have been a cross platform consultant for many years. It just is not true. Whenever I have switched a client from Windows to Macs, I generally stopped making as much money from that client. I've maintained both Windows and Mac networks of multiple computers. . . and the Windows machines failed more frequently and far sooner unless we paid as much for the hardware. . . but the Windows software still demanded more maintenance.
I've never been called to clean up a virus infected Mac, and I've encountered only three Macs that have gotten Trojans because their owners did something stupid. . . yet I have cleaned many infected Windows machines and there were ALWAYS multiple viruses and malware on the machines, it was never just one. The worst had over 400 discrete malware and viruses on it. I lost count of the number of Windows re-installs I've done. . . but clean a re-install of OS X on a Mac is simple and did not require re-installing software or data. . . and could take between 20 minutes to 45 minutes tops, depending on the version of OS X.
I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've had to re-format an OS X Mac drive to do a re-install. For years on Windows, that was the recommended fix for many problems: reformat and re-install. . . as often as every three months or so, just to get rid of the typical Windows' slow downs.
I have driven cars since 1954 and I can tell you that the current car I have is a 2008 and has 84,000 miles on it. I have done absolutely nothing to this car except change oil and tires. Never even added water. No heater hose, no radiator hose no spark plugs or wires absolutely nothing has been replaced. Not even air conditioner freon has been added.
Does that sound like smoke and mirrors?
I had one Mac break in my life and it was aMac Classic that I lugged around like a laptop so maybe I wasn't using it properly. I gave away several Apple II GS models a couple years ago and they were still running.
I still have a G4 Mac Mini and an original PowerBook G4 all still running.
My main computer is a 2009 early Mac Pro that runs 24/7 and is networked to a Mac Mini that I record TV on locally which also runs 24/7. I have several iMacs (5)one is an old 17" and all of them are running on my local network along with a cheap PC and X-Box, two Tivos 4 Roku boxes and several iPhones and iPads.
Smoke and Mirrors indeed.