I'm curious about people's experience. We run many Macs in the lab, and recently I've been upgrading people's machines with the new iMacs. In the last few months, 3 of them have failed: - one smoked (literally) - one's video failed - one's LCD lamp failed plus: - 2 Xserve RAID drive units failed (lucky for the "RAID" part)
All were no more than a year and a bit out of the box (the Intel iMac with the bad lamp was just born a month ago). Meanwhile I still have several Quadras (yes Quadras, running OS 8 and HyperCard. Remember?) that have been running non-stop for 15 YEARS (I kid you not) with maybe 1 or 2 drive failures. Is it my imagination or is Apple's QC going down the tubes? Used to be that when you paid premium for "an Apple computer", you got quality and reliability. To Apple's credit, they fixed it all no cost, even those no longer warrantied, but still. When I fire up a Mac I want to work on it not have it in the shop, even if repairs are covered. I was wondering if my experience is unique or others have noticed the same? Peter. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter K. Stys, MD Professor of Medicine(Neurology), Senior Scientist Ottawa Health Research Institute, Div. of Neuroscience Ottawa Hospital / University of Ottawa Ontario, CANADA tel: (613)761-5444 fax: (613)761-5330 http://www.ohri.ca/profiles/stys.asp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
