ORIGINAL: LGM Graphix
I don't know squat about computers, I really don't. What I do know, is that 3 or so months ago, out computers HD seized, we lost everything. We decided after having crappy luck with having computers ''built'' for us, that we would just go to best buy and buy a cheap computer.
We bought an HP laptop, within a month, the HD failed on it. They replaced it with some other brand as a desktop (we didn't care if it was a laptop or desktop). After only ONE day the Harddrive failed. We now have an Acer tower which so far is working fine.
Everyone told me ''GET A MAC''. Well, we use the computer very little, the Acer tower we bought was $400. It was 4X that amount to get ANY Mac. At the same time as we were having issues, a friend of ours bought a Macbook or something along those lines (Mac laptop looking thing). It was $2600. In the same amount of time as our issues, he's had it replaced 4 times. Biggest difference is he's had to pay to ship it back for ''warranty'' 4 times now as the store wouldn't just give him a new one. After the 4th time failure, he's gone back to a PC.
None of these computer problems were software or virus related, every single one was component failure. Another friend of mine who is a computer scientist told me he's not surprised to hear of the Mac failures either, the hardware is all made by the same companies....
So my options are spend $400 for a piece of crap that will eventually fail, or spend $1600+ on a piece of crap that will eventually fail. Electonics today suck, the new computers all seem to fail within a couple years. My 12 year old Dell at work still ticks over without missing a beat. It lives in the worst possible hot/cold, dusty, damp, crappy conditions any computer could be in, but it keeps going.
The PC/Mac debate is like JR/Futaba/Hitec. Everyone has their opinion, but when you read the threads, everyone has had failures. Again, today's electronics all suck...... I hate to say it, but it's true, the further technology progresses, the more reliability seems to decline.....
I work on PC's since the 8088 chip (Before windows). At the beginning I replaced computers every year or 2 now 3 (maybe). I learned that the most important is customer service (because ALL WILL FAIL at some point in time). That is why I use Dell, you can call the XPS number anytime and in no time flat you talk to somebody, and solve the problem. We have 4 Dells.
HP is getting out of the tablet business, and will sell the PC business for what I heard. They have great printers.
Gerry