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Sure, one guys experience with a single Mac Mini is absolutely the basis for general statements regarding Apple hardware. Especially when we are treated with s
by batista 15y ago
Sure, one guys experience with a single Mac Mini is absolutely the basis for general statements regarding Apple hardware.
Especially when we are treated with such insight as the use of the "Death Star" moniker for Hitachi drives (a name given for a faulty production run circa 2004, an aeon ago in computer times) and the fact that Mac Mini's don't have a physical cd rom eject button.
Because, you know, there aren't tens of millions of satisfied users of said firm's hardware around, and the firm doesn't top computer user satisfaction surveys for 6-7 years in a row. And it's not like most alpha geeks, and around 70% of all hacker conference attendants use said firm's hardware (with a few even known to prefer to use the hardware even to run an alternative OS, like Linux, instead of a PC, because they consider it top notch).
- vertr 15y agoThe 75GXP death star debacle was in 2000-2001.
- batista 15y agoThanks. I remember having 2-3 die on us on my startup at the time, but wasn't sure if it was 2004 or earlier. Those were IBM branded though, not Hitachi yet. I remember reading some hilarious advice on the net by IBM, like "don't run them for more that 18 consecutive hours" or something like it.