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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ki11erDM" data-source="post: 4586824" data-attributes="member: 58179">If you are ever going to go Mac this would be the only way I would recommend it.  OSX is not a bad OS but the hardware is disproportionately bad in comparison to a standard PC build. In the IT group I am helping run now we have just over a 1000 systems with about a quarter Apples and the rest Dells (with a few off brand PCs as well).   About 150 of them are laptops with the same distribution between Dells and Apples.  In the end of the year report we are compiling right now 52% of all hardware repairs were for the Apples.  Most were from overheated systems or flaky screens, 43% of the Apple laptops have been sent back to Apple for repairs at least once in the last 3 years.  Roughly 13% of the Dell laptops were repaired (on site) by Dell in the last 3 years.  None of that covers and battery recalls. I don’t know what the hell they do when they put those things together but the quality control at Apple is miserable, and certainly not worth the 25% premium we have to pay for them. Oh and the software issues we dealt with followed the breakdown of the systems almost perfectly 23% OSX, 51% XP/Vista and the rest Linux. One thing that really gets my goat with Mac people is they seem to not blame Apple for a hardware defect.  They just throw it away and happily march off to buy another one.  If you are going to buy one at least pay for the warranty… you will use it.</blockquote>

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