Bob_Peters wrote:
I must say your hardware experiences are not typical based on what I have seen. I've owned many different Macintoshes since 1984 and have had two (2) hardware failures: one bad motherboard on a 7200 and one disk drive.
So what percentage failure is that? If you've owned 20 [unlikely] that's still a significant 10% failure and if you've owned 10 [more likely] that's then 20% hardware failure.
I have had PCs that worked without issues. This does not mean all PCs are therefore fine. There are far, far more PCs in general use than Macs, therefore you are more likely to come across PC problems being mentioned even without other variables being questioned, such as Apple only sell to the top of the market. If only 5% of PCs have issues that's more than the entire Mac world market.
And if you'd bought similarly priced high end PCs would they have failed anymore, bearing in mind most of the source parts are the same apart from the motherboards/chips?
A few years back, The Gadget Show, a UK TV programme [which is very, very pro Apple], did a test on fixing PCs and Macs. They dropped both off a balcony and then tried to get them fixed. In both cases the motherboard had unsurprisingly broken. £50 for the PC motherboard bought in first shop tried and PC was up and running, if a little battered looking. £350 was quoted for a Mac motherboard. But no-one had one in country, so it stayed broken.
The big, big difference is Apple base their marketing on the fact that their products just work and are more reliable than PCs, which is patent nonsense. The genius bar in my Apple store is constantly busy with customers with problems and I have to book in advance to see them and I've seen them quite a lot sadly. What Apple are truly exceptional at is marketing, probably the best in the world [in any business]. Their equipment and software is probably no less bug free or prone to failure than a comparable PC company which only sells premium products. Most of the people I know with Macs have had problems that require visits to the retailer.
Charles Arthur a technology writer for the high end UK press and a massive Apple fan, wrote an article a while back about the fact that it had suddenly dawned on him that nearly every Apple product his household had owned over that last few years has had warrantee issues. Many PC companies in UK also offer longer warrantees than Apple do.
I use both PCs and Macs and the reality is that you only have different problems, not more or less problems.
And what about buggy software - there's been an awful lot of that, no matter what platform? Early releases of each version of OSX is buggy, early versions of Win is buggy. No difference at all in my view. If you are using either one, stick with it as the time spent learning how the new OS and other software works could be better spent learning more about your own OS and software. Most people do not know how to make the most of their current software and many of their 'problems' would go away if they did.
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