my kid likes to open 27 websites at once until the machine crashes. it always does. i aways scream. then someone tries to sell me something unsolicited. then the screen goes blue. that was my life
i told my kid to do anything she could opening and closing websites and programs to crash os x. she couldn't do it. we were both impressed On 12/26/06, OK Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
First, it's hard to separate dispassionate analysis from religious fever in any PC vs. Mac discussion. My bias is towards PCs. My favorite quote on the question is "A Mac is like a bicycle with training wheels that you can't take off". This dates from the DOS 3 era. There are those of us (mostly Linux users now) who like to fiddle with the innards of their PCs, knowingly trading stability for experimentation. There are a LOT of variables that effect PC stability - from the quality of the hardware to the software to the user. I have users who regularly destroy PCs, and those that regularly destroy Macs. I will say that Apple is not going to sell you a hard drive or memory chip from the bottom of the barrel, which many PC manufactures will - and you really run into with "white box" or DIYS PCs where price is the deciding criteria when choosing parts. I buy the cheapest parts I can find, but don't expect them to be the pinnacle of reliability. I maintain them my self, and just deal with it when a drive gets corruption or dies. If you install every piece of shareware someone tells you about, you can expect an un-stable Windows OS. If you only use mainstream software, and don't constantly remove and re-install versions, etc., you can expect Windows to be stable, at least from NT workstation and XP on. We only got Macs for our graphics folk when they started printing directly to color presses - color management on a Macs was light years ahead of PCs at the time - about seven years ago. One of the graphic artists is constantly crashing his Mac and having to re-load it. He's the "Mac guru" of the shop - go figure. I've never used consumer support, so have no idea what you'll get from any of them. The State (OK) just standardized on Dell PC's, and I can tell you that, so far, HP commercial support beats Dell's hands down. I think that you'll get comparable hardware quality from the commercial versions of PCs from IBM, HP, etc., and from Apple. The jury is still out on Dell. I doubt that you'll get that level of quality from the consumer versions of PCs from anyone. I can tell you that the mechanical difference between commercial models of Compaq laptops and the one consumer Dell I have is like a Mercedes to a Hyundai. You can read the vintage of the machines I'm talking about by the use of Compaq instead of HP --- I did "drop tests" on three models of laptops each from Dell and Compaq once. I had demo units of the ultra-portable, two spindle mid size, and "desktop replacement" commercial lines. I dropped them, running, from waist high, onto a "raised floor" - 24" square tiles suspended above concrete. only the largest Dell failed - the screen cracked and was un-usable. The other five ran as if nothing had happened. I attribute the failure of the Dell to the random angle and corner it hit at - not a design deficiency. They all survived better than I expected. note - this was about five years ago --- YMMV. -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers '90 300D, '87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC, '97 Ply Grand Voyager _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
