On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 18:39 -0700, Mr O wrote: > First of all, nearly everyone used IBM drives at one point. When > you could produce the volume needed at a price you couldn't > argue with why not buy? My pile of dead or nearly dead laptop > drives is 80% IBM/Hitachi. 19% Fujitsu & Toshiba. Maybe a couple > Seagate and not more than one or two WD or Samsung. Really don't > see WD laptop drives that often.
Eh, Consider yourself lucky. I used to swear by WD during the WD vs Maxtor wars. > > FWIW, IBM only sold 70% of its drive business (or the assets) to > Hitachi. That was shortly after the beginning of the DeathStar > debacle. Yup, Hitachi probably are good drives, just my clumsy butt, errr... faulty plastic laptop case that couldn't withstand a gentle drop. > > Buying a Mac (laptop) is a really poor excuse to get a new > computer. It isn't as if the hardware is more or less reliable > than any other computer. One thing I do recommend to *anybody* > considering a Mac, get the extened warranty no questions asked. > They cost way too much to repair and I refuse to work on them > any more. I enjoyed this note concerning Macs, but it does makes sensible sense! ;-) > The hardware nazi, > Mr O. Any fliers promoting your political agenda? ;-) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Tue May 22 01:25:27 PDT 2007 _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
