Re: Bye Bye HP!
- From: jsavard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John Savard)
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:52:05 GMT
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:51:06 -0600, GreyCloud <cumulus@xxxxxxxx> wrote,
in part:
>Finally dumped the HP back on Costcos back.
>New iMac G5 on order.
I thought maybe you were going to tell us that HP, deciding that
made-in-China PCs were only hurting their firm's legendary reputation
for quality (remember their pocket calculators?) had decided to follow
IBM's lead, and abandon an industry in which the rampant price-cutting
compels just about everyone in the market to either produce shoddy
products or be kicked out of the market.
However, while there is negativity directed at HP and other PC makers,
generally speaking, the rate of hardware problems is not high. They may
be making them in China, but they do seem to be working afterwards.
The main bad thing about PCs today is that when they crash, since XP
Home mandates the NTFS file system, sometimes it is problematic getting
all your files out of the computer using some "recovery disk" systems.
(This has improved, though, from what it was a few years ago.) Sure,
techies who have a *second computer* or have a CD from a magazine cover
with certain handy utilities would have no problem, but it's very easy
for the naive user to be up a creek without a paddle.
Of course, Macs don't crash as often, and have far less malware to worry
about. And because the hardware maker also makes the operating system,
there is no question of operating system disks *versus* recovery disks.
Is this another Wintel problem that Macs - both the current ones, and
the classic ones of the past - simply don't have? If so, that would
certainly be a selling point... if the word got out.
John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html
http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html
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