Re: Interesting related follow up on : Libel, Blah de blah, HypoCRASSy, etc.

2004-05-08 Thread Geoffrey Loeffler
On May 7, 2004, at 5:46 PM, Anne Judge wrote: The magazine was Consumer Reports. They get their information on incidence of repair from their annual questionnaire. Which every Mac head put Excellent for every category, including me, not again, they love to fly that flag. The truth a year ago

Re: Interesting related follow up on : Libel, Blah de blah, HypoCRASSy, etc.

2004-05-08 Thread Mikael Byström
Geoffrey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Which every Mac head put Excellent for every category, including me, not again, they love to fly that flag. Not so fast, I'm a total Mac head and I take every chance to complain at Apples treatment of customers and repairs, within or without an Applecare

Re: Interesting related follow up on : Libel, Blah de blah, HypoCRASSy, etc.

2004-05-08 Thread Michelle Klein-Hass
On Friday 07 May 2004 04:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the laptop category Apple has a slight lead over second place Toshiba, with Dell far down the list. Where does IBM rank in this? I have had nothing but good luck with my ThinkPads, both a 365X (living with friends) and a 600E (in

Re: WARNING: long reply.... Re: Re: Interesting related follow up on : Libel, Blah de blah, HypoCRASSy, etc.

2004-05-08 Thread Laurent Daudelin
Folks, The list is not to express opinions or debate about whether Apple is good or not or whether someone is a liar, exaggerated or not. It's about talking about problems and solutions that relate to PowerBooks and iBook G3 and G4. Drop this thread immediately, please. The next person to post

Re: Interesting related follow up on : Libel, Blah de blah, HypoCRASSy, etc.

2004-05-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Saturday, May 8, 2004, at 12:46 AM, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote: On May 7, 2004, at 5:46 PM, Anne Judge wrote: The magazine was Consumer Reports. They get their information on incidence of repair from their annual questionnaire. Which every Mac head put Excellent for every category,

Re: Interesting related follow up on : Libel, Blah de blah, HypoCRASSy, etc.

2004-05-08 Thread Geoffrey Loeffler
On May 8, 2004, at 1:22 AM, Mikael Byström wrote: Geoffrey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Which every Mac head put Excellent for every category, including me, not again, they love to fly that flag. If I want to promote Macs, it's the OS I promote and all the apps, the community and so on. NOT Apple

Interesting related follow up on : Libel, Blah de blah, HypoCRASSy, etc.

2004-05-07 Thread Bigbikerbo
After the hubbub and ranting about how poor Apple's history and record on machines this week, I received this afternoon an interesting article from a major Apple dealer. I found it refreshing to say the least, and it definitely confirms my own experience as welll as my opinion about Apple

Re: Interesting related follow up on : Libel, Blah de blah, HypoCRASSy, etc.

2004-05-07 Thread Richard Bae
I'm wondering about that number of repairs needed. . . is it actual numbers or percentage of computers needed to be repaired within how many sold of its own kind. That would make a huge difference seeing as Dell or any other windows mfg outsells apple at a higher rate and if they are just