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- From: jmalloy@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy)
- Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmar
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.133431.1348@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>
- Organization: Hamilton College - Clinton, NY
- References: <Truth_Assassin_Kibo.0r68@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca> <Bzo8Jz.2vx@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:34:31 GMT
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- In article <Bzo8Jz.2vx@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- >
- >As for Mac hardware being superior to clones, why do I see so many
- >broken Macs? The mouse controllers on maybe 20% of our Si's have
- >gone crazy. (The machines aren't exactly unusable but they do things
- >like "press" and "let go" the mouse button when you don't want it
- >to. The menus flash on and off and on and off... The machines are
- >just over a year old.) I can't even count the number of Mac Pluses
- >with burned out video or bad power supplies I've seen. No, mac
- >hardware is pretty cheap and manufactured in Taiwan just like the
- >clones. And just like the clones, it gets assembled in the states.
- >So whats the difference?
- >
- >Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala
-
- You know, my experience has been the same and I must say that even
- though I don't like the Mac, I always assumed the extra cost bought you,
- if little else, a well-made (i.e., reliable) piece of hardware. Yet it
- surprises me just how many of my colleague's machines (we're a largely
- Macked-up campus; there are some PC holdouts, though) break down with a
- surprising regularity. The most egregious case, from back when Apple
- still had the 90-day-only warranty: friend/colleague buys new Mac SE;
- nine months later, the hard drive fails, she pays $550 (!) at the
- authorized dealer for a replacement. I later read in InfoWorld of the
- troubles Apple was having with hd failure rates (bad batch from supplier
- was the claim by Apple) -- yet the supplier had given Apple a TWO YEAR
- warranty on the driver. You'd think from a customer relations point of
- view they'd have gone through the trouble of replacing the dirve (labor
- only fee, perhaps?) and swapped the unit for a new one from their
- supplier, but, no, that's not the Mac way.
-
- I get much better service (anda more reliable machine!) from my clone
- maker!
-
- jmalloy@hamilton.edu
-
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