I've worked on Macs for years, and the only model I can think of that
is failure-prone is the original, Bondi Blue iMac. My brother in
law's Lombard Powerbook has been an ongoing problem for him, but that
*may* be due in part that he likes to tinker with things.
My 800MHz G4 17" flat panel iMac has been trouble-free, I'm happy to
report. (Knocking on wood now....)
--mf
On Jan 13, 2006, at 3:15 AM, Alex Chamberlain wrote:
On 1/11/06, Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The beauty about surfing the trailing edge, and a 240D is nothing
if not that, is that you are buying the _best_ stuff that was
available
at the time. For cheap. That ibook, unfortunately, is not the best
that Apple made even when new. And they have made some lemons, too.
Somewhere around 2000, Apple quality took a nosedive. I am typing
this on a Sawtooth (2nd-generation G4 tower) which I bought in 1999.
Never had the slightest problem with it, through many hardware and
software upgrades. (I expect to continue using it with OS X for five
years or so at least, or until there is some piece of software I need
to run that absolutely requires newer hardware... at which point I
still won't get rid of the G4, I'll just run Linux on it and get a new
machine to run OS X.)
I also still use a Lombard (2nd-generation G3 PowerBook) running OS
9.2.2. Never a problem with that one either.
But almost everyone I know with newer Macs, especially the boxy G3 and
G4 iBooks (not the original toilet-seat G3s), has had trouble with
them---mostly hardware problems suggestive of corner cutting and
decline in quality of materials.
Alex Chamberlain
'87 300D Turbo
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L. Mark Finch
Indianapolis
1982 300D Turbodiesel
