Re: Is Windows 98 SE More Secure Than OS X? ('better' components)

In article <448a4614$0$26794$88260bb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"John Slade" <hitman86@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Mitch" <mitch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <448864d6$0$26835$88260bb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Slade
<hitman86@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Macs have better components than the 'clones' and only Macs offer the
desirable operating system Mac OS X.

And what exactly are those "better" components and who makes these
"better components". I can't wait to hear the answer for this one.

Better, as in higher quality.

Oh come on. This is an old old myth that Mac hardware is of higher
quality. That's complete bull***! My sister had a Mac and when we would
take her computer to the Mac store for repairs. They had a LOT of Macs there
getting repaired. One time the tech told me that it was common for a lot of
Macs to all have one faulty component in common.

Wow, you obviously have a keen grasp of polling techniques, particularly
the need for random sampling.

The term 'clone' implies lower quality.

Not any more.

I was only writing that Macs don't use the low-end stuff,

Oh but they do. Remember the combustable batteries?

There can be design flaws with any product -- the fact that the
batteries Apple was planning to use had some issues says absolutely
nothing about whether they were low-end or high-end products.

In fact, this issue cropped up during the transition from NiMH to Li-Ion
batteries. At the time, Li-Ions *were* the more expensive, higher-end
part. Apple got burned because they moved too aggressively to a newer
technology, and the vendor they picked (Sony, IIRC) didn't quite have
all the bugs worked out yet.

It's also worth noting that Apple's QA process caught the problem before
the machines shipped. Would that have happened with a low-end Wintel
vendor? It's anyone's guess.

not that the components were better than
major maker PC builders like Sony or Toshiba or HP.

Prove it.


In other words, I wasn't writing that ONLY Apple uses high-quality
parts, just that Apple isn't using the junk that is common in $180
desktops at P-Mart.

I haven't seen any $180 desktops anywhere. Look you are clearly
clueless. I'm sure you're someone who I killfiled and was just yearning to
get back to arguing with me. You have very little knowledge of computer
components.

I'll give you once chance to show you know what you're talking about. Who
makes Apple's motherboards? Who does Apple buy memory from? Who makes the
DVD-ROM devices for Apple computers? If you can't answer these questions
then you have no business commenting on the quality of Apple's components.
You see I know that Apple buys all their components from companies that
produce components for PCs.

That's very close to being completely irrelevant. Large vendors source
parts from OEMs with specific specifications. The fact that they come
from the same vendor tells you almost nothing.

Note that I'm not saying Apple uses e.g. higher quality hard drives than
PC vendors. That stuff is pretty standardized. But Apple's small, fairly
consistent number of models allows the company to do more real
integration testing, which is hard when you're Dell, tossing whatever is
cheapest this week into the box. And there are clearly some areas where
Apple invests in quality to a greater extent than most other vendors.
Cases, for instance.

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