Originally Posted by
Boraxo
Care to elaborate? I thought you were one of the Apple fans in the forum, but I'm not lurking here every day.
From what I've read, the typical PC user - by my definition to inculde internet surfing, email, word docs, excel spreadsheets, perhaps some simple photo and music file management, and maybe a wireless home network and/or wireless travel use - will be far better off with a trouble-free, virus-free mac. Not to mention great customer service from local Apple stores for those of us lucky enough to live close to one.
But maybe I'm missing something.
I think he's referring to typical manufacturing defects, flawed parts getting into the consumer pipeline, that sort of thing. I have a MacBook Pro (2GHz Core Duo, not the newer Core 2 Duo) from, oh, October I think it was, repaired twice for hardware failure. This isn't the same thing as the software which typically works quite well for me. And I don't know for certain that hardware failure is any more common with this model than others. It may well not be, but it was enough to lead me to suggest my boss not get one of these when he was considering getting one of these previous version models recently.
Overall, I don't think hardware failure is any worse with Apple than other computer manufacturers, but I don't really think it's any better either. Hardware failures happen, and when they happen under warranty they get fixed. Apple also has a reputation for better support, but you can find horror stories for this as well when you poke around. (My recent experience with their warranty repair was so-so, not stellar, but not awful.)
I certainly fall on the side of suggesting a serious look at Apple and not falling for the still-common misconceptions about such a choice, but I don't believe it's the panacea for all computer ills.