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60 hours is easily lost when some piece on your custom rig dies and you don't have apple care.

• glibgil 11y ago
  Hyperbole! What piece could possibly take 60 hours to order, receive and replace?
  • manicdee 10y ago
    The same pieces that took four days to arrive via courier in the first place?
• soared 11y ago
  From the article: "The honest truth is, I have spent just as much time in a Apple store at the Genius Counter getting my Apple machines repaired as I have maintaining my well built PCs."
  • joshvm 11y ago
    Apple Care does take sweet time, but you don't need to go to the store. They'll pick your machine up by courier to fix, at least they did for my iMac when the hard drive died.
• mschuster91 11y ago
  Do it like any other responsible place and keep spare machines at hand. Oh, I forgot, there's nothing as painless as a properly set up Windows Server with auto provisioning... My primary work machine is a 2011 MBP and it's working like a fucking beast, but still, I fear the moment it will break and require 1-2 days in the IT department for reinstall. Provisioning a Win7 machine with MSIs is PAINLESS if you know how to deal with the MS toolchain (except Java which is a PITA to get running...) Ditto for network-backed home directories, as long as you have Cat6 networking and good networking hardware which you should have anyway if you're a serious business, it's a couple of config options set up ONCE for the entire AD and you're done. Macs, to this day, don't speak PXE but their own Apple protocol, and something even remotely alike to assigning MSIs via Active Directory is not achievable without (paid!) 3rd party tools.