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Blogspot mac fanboys linking to other blogspot mac fanboys. I noticed macbooks everywhere at university a while back, now I just see zillions of netbooks. His c

by drats 17y ago

Blogspot mac fanboys linking to other blogspot mac fanboys. I noticed macbooks everywhere at university a while back, now I just see zillions of netbooks. His comment on "frustrating Windows netbooks" doesn't gel with their popularity, everyone I know loves theirs , to say nothing of people like me who run linux with full hardware support now and love gnome-do/chome/terminals as a massively powerful combination. The only hardware I have that doesn't work properly is my iPhone which has never had 3G as it was in the first run of 3G iPhones and also attempted to lock down the ability to tether. Apple doesn't honor warranty agreements they sell you a phone which doesn't have a major feature working as advertised and then refuse to replace it. But then plenty of PC manufacturers have much lower rates of failure than Apple, I see Apple products as quite cheap and unreliable now (macbook casing cracked along with tons of other people, early hdd failure, iphone without promised 3G, iphone cable fraying and starting to fall to bits in the first month, headphone rubber coming off in a couple of months, heavy discoloration of headphones in a year of light use). And Windows7 and recent linux distributions are easily as powerful as OSX, I would argue more so with linux due to customization.

sjs 17y ago
I'm not buying it. This is from Nov. 2009: > Shoppers and list-makers may be interested to learn that Asus and Toshiba notebooks had three-year failure rates below 16 percent. Sony placed third, with a 16.8 percent three-year failure rate, followed by Apple (17.4 percent), Dell (18.3 percent) and Lenovo (21.5). Acer and Gateway came in just under 24 percent, and Hewlett-Packard, which is the world’s largest producer of PCs, came in last, with a 25.6 percent failure rate over three years. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Asus-Toshiba-Have-Lowest-Failure-Rates-Says-Study-488979/ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Asus-Toshiba... Apple may not be the best but I really want to know how you can stretch the phrases "plenty" and "much lower" to claim that "plenty of PC manufacturers have much lower rates of failure than Apple". 2.5% less failures at the absolute best, by 2 companies. Apple makes decent products and in many ways is leading the industry. It's not the same Apple we knew in the 90s. -- (personal experiences below, you may not care) My 2006 MacBook is going strong, and I managed to pour a glass of chocolate milk on it in 2007^. The 2005 Mac mini I owned before that is still going strong at my friend's house. My iPod 5G w/ video from 2005 and shuffle from 2007 are going strong. My 2006 AirPort express works flawlessly. ^ I had to replace my MacBook's keyboard which had sticky keys and battery which couldn't hold much charge, but the motherboard and CPU were fine after drying out and being cleaned. (I know I come off as a bit of an Apple fanatic but I've only been a customer for 5 years. Before that I had only used Windows and Linux. I still use Linux on servers of course. I'm not religious about Apple at all, they just make good products. iPhone/iPad are too locked down for my taste, but still good.)
elblanco 17y ago
I can't speak for your iPhone woes, but I can echo your observations about netbooks. I see them literally everywhere now on campus. And at least 1/3 of the machines I see at coffee shops are netbooks. The other 1/3 are dells. And the final 1/3 is made up of the rest (including macs).

by drats 17y ago

sjs 17y ago

I'm not buying it. This is from Nov. 2009: > Shoppers and list-makers may be interested to learn that Asus and Toshiba notebooks had three-year failure rates below 16 percent. Sony placed third, with a 16.8 percent three-year failure rate, followed by Apple (17.4 percent), Dell (18.3 percent) and Lenovo (21.5). Acer and Gateway came in just under 24 percent, and Hewlett-Packard, which is the world’s largest producer of PCs, came in last, with a 25.6 percent failure rate over three years. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Asus-Toshiba-Have-Lowest-Failure-Rates-Says-Study-488979/ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Asus-Toshiba... Apple may not be the best but I really want to know how you can stretch the phrases "plenty" and "much lower" to claim that "plenty of PC manufacturers have much lower rates of failure than Apple". 2.5% less failures at the absolute best, by 2 companies. Apple makes decent products and in many ways is leading the industry. It's not the same Apple we knew in the 90s. -- (personal experiences below, you may not care) My 2006 MacBook is going strong, and I managed to pour a glass of chocolate milk on it in 2007^. The 2005 Mac mini I owned before that is still going strong at my friend's house. My iPod 5G w/ video from 2005 and shuffle from 2007 are going strong. My 2006 AirPort express works flawlessly. ^ I had to replace my MacBook's keyboard which had sticky keys and battery which couldn't hold much charge, but the motherboard and CPU were fine after drying out and being cleaned. (I know I come off as a bit of an Apple fanatic but I've only been a customer for 5 years. Before that I had only used Windows and Linux. I still use Linux on servers of course. I'm not religious about Apple at all, they just make good products. iPhone/iPad are too locked down for my taste, but still good.)

elblanco 17y ago

I can't speak for your iPhone woes, but I can echo your observations about netbooks. I see them literally everywhere now on campus. And at least 1/3 of the machines I see at coffee shops are netbooks. The other 1/3 are dells. And the final 1/3 is made up of the rest (including macs).