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To: Up Yours Marxists
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.

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.

6 posted on 07/28/2015 9:08:29 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: roadcat; ro_dreaming; catfish1957
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).

I am sure you are familiar with Western Digital RED drives designed for Network Attached Storage (NAS)? They are built from the top 5% of Western Digital's production run of platters, drive motors, etc. Apple's Hard drives and other parts are built to the same specifications. It is one of the reasons that Apple computers ARE more expensive than the competition and also why Apple computers last longer than the competition. Open up a Mac and you will see the Apple logo on those parts which is why it is on there. . . The supplier had to certify they met those requirements. They are NOT just a collection of off-the-shelf components as the Apple nay-sayer crowd claims Apple computers are made of, implying they are the same as the $400 Windows boxes. There is a distinct difference in design, engineering, construction, and components. That is one of them.

11 posted on 07/28/2015 10:35:06 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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