Re: mac
- From: Tom Walls <tw25@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 12:54:05 -0400
In article <e5kg1k$ndl$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
Tom Walls wrote:The el crappola manuals that Apple ship will suffice as long as you use
In article <1149042561.248209.208960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
nate@xxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
get the mac. especially now. the new intel macs are great because youI agree with everything Nate says, BUT be sure to factor in the price of
get the best of both worlds. Mac's OS is such a joy to use. But the
new macs allow you to install a copy of windows and dual boot, so if
you need the pc for any reason, you can do it. Mac's are more money,
but they're really fine machines and in my opnion are 100% worth it.
Nate
a service contract, because without it the support from Apple is less
than zero.
I've never needed to call for Mac support in the 10 years or so that
I've been using them. Every once in a while something actually breaks
and then I just go to a service centre.
And if you're savvy enough to get online with your Mac the Apple
Discussions Forums are real good for little problem solving quests.
<http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa>
And it's free.
the computer in exactly the way that whoever loaded the thing intended,
but I never use anything the way it's intended. I have, in fact,
maintained my CPU without subscribing to Apple's service but it's
required a lot of time searching for answers that could have been
covered in the manual, IF there WAS a manual instead of a pamphlet. I
had to endure an extremely unpleasant verbal sparring match with the
dink on the phone who called to extend the service plan after the one
year warantee was up. Also it's not like the damn things are flawless:
Apple's laptop batteries are notoriously unreliable, I've had two power
supplies punk out on me, my wife's desktop routinely fails to recognize
her disc drive, and my system crashes about once every two months. That
said, I've used Macs since the days when one booted the operating system
from a floppy, and I'll buy another as soon as I'm convinced the bugs
have been worked out of the latest generation, but I'll consider paying
the bucks for the service plan, so that I can solve my problem with a
phone call rather than a week or two searching the internet for a
solution.
--
Tom Walls
the guy at the Temple of Zeus
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