Re: Mac vs PC repair rates

lcpltom <lcpltom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As someone else pointed out, Mac's tend to be very difficult to
impossible to upgrade the hardware on.

I have not had to modify a Mac other than adding memory and disks for
several years. They have everything you could possibly want right out of
the box these days. In the 90's I used to modify the heck out of them
though. To mod a Mac, you open the case, insert the card, close the
case, boot it and use it. Period.

PCs have now approached the same plug-and-play level, but in the 90's if
I added a card, you could bet it was time to go to the dealer and have
it fixed. You had to be such a low level driver expert to make any two
cards work together that it just wasn't worth the time and sweat to try
to get them to work myself.

That said, I doubt that even 10% of users of either platform ever modify
their computers once purchased (outside the corporate environment, where
there is a team of IT ready to make all machines fit a standard
configuration).

--
- Burt Johnson
MindStorm, Inc.
http://www.mindstorm-inc.com/software.html
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