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Macbook, mini-ipad, and i-phone - all 3 dead within a year in my house. no thanks.
When you pay a premium price for a high end product, I would hope the reliability would be better. When you buy an expensive Windows machine, I think they can sometimes have more problems than the cheaper ones. I’m kind of surprised Apple doesn’t come with a better warranty. Of course, sometimes they will fix out of warranty stuff if there’s a known manufacturing defect.
In addition, it was purchased second-hand for less than half-price. I can still make money on it!!! It replaced an 2 year older MacBook which my daughter is still using...
Before I moved to the Philippines, I also had a 24" iMac which was purchased second hand. It was 4 years old when I bought it, and sold it for more than I paid after 2 more years of my use. I am a good buyer and a good re-seller!
(Not mine. For reference only)
Great article. I still use my 2006 white MacBook with a “60W MagSafe Power Adapter” which was huge at the time.
I hate doing this but.....
9 yr old IBM Lenovo Thinkpad Edge
Never a problem
Never power it down just to reboot once a week or so for clean up.
Now beating my head on wood for good luck. Probably die tomorrow
There are some things about the Mac that I absolutely hate:
For some reason, the designers do not like cut-and-paste. Maybe they think it's safer to copy-and-paste and then go back and delete. It's NOT. I have lost more files because of this cumbersome, inefficient, maddening defect than I ever lost by cut-and-paste. If the designers consider copy-and-paste-and-go-back-and-delete to be safer than cut-and-paste, fine, but they should give the consumer the option--at least.
Also you cannot blend two files and keep the contents of both; you can replace one with the other, but the contents of the replaced file are lost.
In combining and streamlining files, I have to borrow my wife's very inexpensive Toshiba, which is obviously ridiculous.
Furthermore, you cannot batch rename. If you have 30 photographs to name, you must click-and-rename each one--which is infuriating. You can't just click "rename" and type in "Paris, August 17, 2015" and have them all renamed-- Unless, of course, you have a wife with an inexpensive Toshiba.
Also, in the new Mac, you cannot merely save-as and keep the document in its location. You must go through several steps to choose the location you want. This is not an improvement.
People who are enamored of Apple seem to consider these charming little "quirks". They're not. They are serious and infuriating defects.
Proves nothing except that AAPL doesn’t serve the low end market... WinTel machines come in literally millions of hardware combinations and are used by people that have no experience to decades of experience... AAPL products come in a few basic configs and the manufacturer controls the software... Not surprised that is more reliable... I also didn’t see where in the sample a “breakdown” was defined. Obviously from a hardware perspective the HDD is the most vulnerable to failure but the CD/DVD/BluRAY drive is a close second... and HDD’s vary in quality and reliability (I use Fujitsu and HDS) ,, as AAPL uses the same drives as everyone else I’d have to say the additional failures are all software... From a software perspective a “failure” can mean anything ... Grandma bluehair would report a failure while I might just right click and resolve an issue...
Glad to see you’re staying on course ,, nothing but AAPL Phanboy (or is it Fanboi?) news all the time!
My wife, bless her heart, tends to practice, uh, less than safe internetting. As a result, her Dell Windows 10 laptop kept accumulating so many viruses I got tired of cleaning them out.
My solution? I gave her my Apple iPad Air 2 with keyboard case and mouse. That was almost six months ago, and she loves it. The best part? No viruses.
And the Dell? After removing all the viruses, I installed Ubuntu and now have it on a dual boot. I’m happy.
I thought only long haired, hemp shirt wearing, manpurse carrying liberals used Apple products?