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You Apple guys really know how to rub it in.
Where can I trade in my Gates garbage laptops to scrap together enough dough for a MacLaptop / Airbook?
I sent an Acer laptop to my protegeÌ in Việt Nam five years ago and it still works fine.
Johnny One Note blows his horn again. Terrorist massacre in our homeland, and in response, this worshiper of false idols posts another praise to his deity.
freaking repulsive.
My experience with my Macbook over 3 years was 1 MB replacement, 1 keyboard replacement, 2 HD replacements, and eventually the LCD developed lines. This was over a 3 year period of some pretty hard use. I think all the laptop hard drives are prone to fail due to the fact that they have moving parts, so I don’t count that against Apple.
The Asus I have at work, has already had the M2 SSD replaced once, and the MB replaced twice (!) due to a design flaw with the power connector. Plus the power adapter failed. Unlike the MacBook, I babied this thing. That’s over a 2 year period.
So small sample size, but the MacBook wins. I have a SurfaceBook now. Will see how that holds up.
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My nephew got a gaming Asus before he went to the sand three years afo. Still going strong
My apple laptop is 7 years old, replaced the battery is all.
Gets light use, use it for motorbike trips and in the garage for tech manuals.
It has over 30,000 miles in the topcase of my motorbike.
But, the guy said no problem, we're sending it back to the regional service place and replacing anything that is not 80% perfect for free anyway.
New Logic Board. New Port Strip. New Touch Pad. New Keyboard. New Top Body, Bottom Body. Anything that didn't perform up to 80% of tests. ALL that stuff was working fine when I brought it in.
I know for a fact that they would have replaced the battery had it not been about perfect ... because exactly 4 days before a guy a work with -> wife went though same thing - many major parts replaced, and they did the battery.
They must check to see how much money you've spent with them - and appy an algorithm of 'we need to keep this guy' (me not all that much - although I had iPhone 4 years ago, now Android for 4 years, and have iPad. Had 2400$ Mac Pro that I dumped a glass of water in 5 years ago (the one time I brought a drink and computer onto futon at the same time) (no free replacement there)).
All Free, though - the stuff not totally my fault. I have to assume Best Buy, on a Windows machine would have said 'well, you're screwed'. But ... it's a 1200 computer, and frankly the logic board should not mysteriously just die after 2 years.
That's just info - not necessarily praising or not praising Apple.
The Surface Pro is great——so far.
Mac user since 2004- G4, MacBook, MacBook Pro. No Apple toys, none to come.
I’m hard on them- cigarette ashes, mass quantities of dog hair, the occasional drowning or falling over. Or crumbs. My issues have been user error, mostly. After the warranty/ AppleCare runs out, find a private shop- but under warranty, support is fantastic. My MacBook (finally) went into repair yesterday, so I will report to the Apple list how that worked out. $150 to replace the screen.
They are ultra simple to use, practically self repairing if you stumble across a bad site, super fast- worth their weight in gold for the frustration you save over “the evil ones”. You do get what you pay for with them, imho.
That said, this is the last for me. The MB Pro is not my favorite & i think the focus on toys is going to hurt the computers (+ losing Steve Jobs).
One would hope!
Yes, one would, and one might find the answer in the detailed survey results, but they seem to be behind the Consumer Reports paywall. I wonder how Consumer Reports defines "break down" and "fail."
If you don’t mind being tethered to google then a Chromebook is a much better value than a Macbook. Chromebooks have very long battery life, are lightweight. Go for a 14” or 13.3” model.
Amazon customer ratings are a good guide. Check out the exceptional ratings and low prices
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-CB35-B3340-Chromebook-Celeron-HD-Screen/dp/B00N99FXIS/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1449133045&sr=1-2&keywords=Toshiba+CB35
My wife has gone through 4 Mac books in the last 5 years. All have been plagued with problems ranging from the “dripping” display, hard drive failure, files becoming corrupted and most recently an attack by malware. She has had two replacement computers fortunately furnished by her employer, two screen replacements and a factory repair under warranty. Not exactly the paragon of reliability.
$850 MacBook Air.
HAHAHAHA....yeah right. Get Santa to bring you one.
$2500 for a Macbook Pro. I have one sitting on my bar.
The one thing with cheap Windows laptops is that batteries wear out after a year if they are left plugged in all the time. At least it used to be this way. I still take the battery out when on electrical power and they remain like new. Maybe this is fixed in recent years, but it's a habit with me now.
I currently use a 17-inch laptop that cost $400, and would have been $2000+ as a Mac.
I think a lot of breakage is from clumsy use, and Macs can probably handle abuse better than Windows laptops.
Title says “laptop” but article only mentions notebooks?
Hmm.. I have had almost no issues with my laptops. Old Dell needed a new motherboard after a sibling spilled OJ on it, but otherwise that laptop is almost 10 years old and still working fine. My lenovo is about 3 years old, and only problem was a hard drive starting to fail a couple days after AMEX’s extended warranty was up (2 year mark). Cloned it, pasted onto a 500Gb SSD, and now my only problem is stupid Valve not being able to fix graphics issues
With as many respondents as they had, they could probably do an apples to apples (sorry) comparison.
I'd be interested in that.
More than four years later, it still looks brand new despite hours of use daily. I need to clean the screen now and then and wipe the rest of it with a damp cloth once in a while but it pretty much looks as new as the day I bought it.
I only had one issue with it. A few months ago, the display started crapping out, forcing me to reboot. Eventually, I couldn't see the screen at all.
So I made an appointment with the Apple store to have it looked at with the full expectation that they would recommend I purchase a new one, which I was fully prepared to do. I figured four years was time. I don't think any of the other laptops I ever had lasted four years.
But the unexpected happened. They ran some diagnostics and informed me that the issue I had was a "known issue" and that their was an FOC (free of charge) program for it. They offered to take it and have it repaired and returned to me in a couple of days. Two or three days later, I went back and picked it up and it's been working great since. I could very well be using this laptop for another three or four years.
I've never experienced a computer product that was so durable. I use this machine as a server for home audio system so I have it on constantly and use it for most of my computer tasks at home. In fact, I just leave my work laptop in the car and rarely bother to bring it in so when I'm home, I get my work done on it also.
So yes, the laptop was expensive but the use I got out of it has actually made it cheaper in terms of utility. Since then, I've purchased an Apple Air 2 tablet and iPhone 5s (soon to upgrade to a 6). All these devices seamlessly tie together. I am certainly not leaving the Apple ecosystem anytime soon.
I also have a collection of iPods from the early days (when those were the only things I bought from Apple). All of them still functional. One iPod sits in my car, one is at the office for when I want to go take a walk and the other one is connected to a portable speaker that I use outside in the summertime. My earliest iPod dates back to 2003 and it's only 40MB (the one I use outside) but it just won't die.