RCU Forums - Whats up with this crap?

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ORIGINAL: dubd

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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.....

First of all, what does a computer scientist know about hardware? Second, a Mac Mini is $600, so not exactly 4x more than your Acer.

It's obvious you prefer Mac, there's nothing wrong with that, all I'm saying is, a Mac isn't worth it for what we do with our computer. At Best Buy where we got our Acer, a Mac Mini that was comparable was $799 and had half the HD memory, not that it matters, even at 500GB I'd never use it much less the 1TB the Acer has. The Acer was $399 and came with a new keyboard and mouse. Will my old PC monitor and stuff work with the Mac or would I have to buy a new monitor (just asking, I have no idea).
I'm not trying to argue one or the other, all I'm saying is, the components can and will fail in either unit. For what I need it for, I'm not going to drop the extra money to have it in white and say Mac on it.
As for my friend, he works with and on computers daily, I'm sure he learns more in a day about the latest greatest hardware/software, and underwear for computers than I want to know in a lifetime. It seems computers are almost like religions, there are those who are just happy to have a computer do the job they need, and others that feel they need to inform the world and try to convince everyone that theirs is better.....