Re: Good Microsoft TV ad!

In article <UcKdnW6ND4vGSnnUnZ2dnUVZ_jxi4p2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
GreyCloud <cumulus@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

speaker wrote:
In article <znu-195514.03433514042009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


There are certain people in this group who seem to have more
trouble with Apple hardware over the course of an average month
than I've had using the stuff full time for 16 years, including
the three years during which I ran a lab with ~50 Macs in it, open
and usually busy 15 hours a day, 6 days a week.

When these happen to be the same people who also seem to have a
wide array of other complaints about Apple, Mac users, and the Mac
platform, it looks a little fishy.

There are certain people in this group who would argue with a
signpost if it had a sign on it saying, "I'm a PC." The quality of
hardware is less important than does it work properly and for how
long. But, those two specifics are a measure of quality. In my
Intel Macs, one a laptop and one a desktop, both had DVD ROM
failures and one of them had a logic board failure - within the
first year. Good thing I had an extended warranty - not Apple care
- I didn't buy from Apple - I got it for less at a reseller than
provided its own warranty, although Apple does the repair.

Interestingly, the pre-Intel Macs have better quality hardware and
they run longer without problems - because the hardware was less
expensive to manufacture then and of a better brand-quality (Sony
and Pioneer as compared to Matshita DVD, for instance.)

Sony has gone downhill resting on their laurels. Pioneer is having
some reliability problems as well, or so it seems after they dumped
their TV line.

Actually, I wish the Macs allowed ECC memory modules. I had an IBM
that used them and it was pretty stable compared to PCs without them.
A bit pricey.

The Mac Pro uses ECC. I'm not sure it's particularly necessary in the
market segments Apple's other machines sell into, but it is true that
there's more of a use case for it in consumer systems every year, as the
amount of memory in consumer systems keeps rising.

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anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it
must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll." -- John Maynard Keynes
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