Bob, God to hear ! Have to add that i still own a good collection of pre-intel Apple boxes still able to run like charms (PWB 140/160, 5300, G3 15 inches, G4 13 inches, MacMini G4,...) and that my concerns began with intel MBP 15 inches dualcore. All went a kind of AppleCare + protected, so i got them all three replaced for free by new ones within 3 days each. To avoid problems, my macs are starting on external HD, timemachined and copycloned on a 24/7 basis. So when any problem occur, i just have to connect the new one and to go head ;-)
In this way, my last 2 weeks old MBP 13 i5 2.5 Ghz is able to run the previous OSX 10.6.8/LC 5.0.2 config i use to code LC server tasks in FTP-SSL mode and all is fine. Least but not last, i rely yet for my mobile and server dev tasks on 2 MBP 13 i5 2.4 Ghz and 2.5 Ghz + samsung displays and both laptops seems lots more reliable than my previous ones. Can't say why but they seems well constructed, not noisy at all, etc... Hope i will own them both for the longs years you report macs are still normally builds to stay reliables :D Pierre Le 5 oct. 2012 à 01:08, Bob Sneidar a écrit : > Pierre, Pierre, I have been running World Of Warcraft at high graphics > settings on both my iMac at home, and my laptop, for years. I've run my > laptop at my Dad's house on the hottest of days there. One is almost 4 years > old the other almost 6. Neither have burned up. Not sure what you are doing > with them, but if you are only getting 1.5 years out of every mac you have > ever owned, I would have to say check the power at your place and put some > kind of UPS in line because DAMN. > > Also, just because a hard drive fails does not mean the computer is wasted. > Also, I administer n 400 node network. About 60% of our computers are Macs. I > have next to my desk all the laptop bodies of the laptops that have failed > completely. There are 5 of them. 2 are G4's. Two more were motherboard > failures. The other was a monitor burnout. Macs have historically been > INCREDIBLY reliable for us. I'm not just a Mac hack. I work in the field of > IT every day and have for 20+ years. > > Also, if you can show you only got that much life out of BRAND NEW macs and > there was no abuse involved, you could go back to Apple and they would comp > you a new one I am sure. Sorry, but I call BS here. > > Bob > > > On Oct 4, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote: > >> Yep... and, in about Linux/Asus versus OSX/Apple, i would really prefer to >> rely on the first kind of config for most of my LC coding and other numeric >> tasks, at least for 2 main reasons : >> >> - in my experience, over the last decade, in average, 18 months is a >> standard Mac live time. Short, is't for 2000 bucks each box ? On other hand, >> my Asus/CentOS configs never give up until i replace them by more recent >> boxes... >> - No way to run games production AI solutions with top at 100% on a 24/7 >> basis on Apple platforms. They would just burn their unibody cases and die >> in less than 24 hours... >> >> But too bad, iOS dev need macs (at least to make the workflow as simple as >> possible...). To bad again, LC stay still, in about mobile/desktop dev, less >> usable on the Linux platform than it's on the OSX and Windows ones... >> >> Would be really helpful to, perhaps !, see the situation change a the near ;) > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Pierre Sahores mobile : 06 03 95 77 70 www.sahores-conseil.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
