Re: Good Microsoft TV ad!

ZnU wrote:
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GreyCloud <cumulus@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

speaker wrote:
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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.


I'd say that using ECC memory would stop those random program crashes.
I've noticed that on DEC hardware, programs weren't crashing due to the extensive memory
checking done. When a program did crash, I always went to the system error log and
lo and behold it pointed to a bad memory chip, which the system then routed around that
memory address. Too bad that PCs can't do that yet.


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"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
William G. McAdoo.
American Government official (1863-1941).
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