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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4593331" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>I've been using Apples- and now Macs- since 1985 or so.</p><p></p><p>I can count on 1 hand the number of technical difficulties I've had, and those resulted from human actions (IOW, abuse):</p><p></p><p>1) A guy liked the sound my Apple IIe made when rebooting, so when he visited me, he'd turn it on and off- rapidly. This caused one drive to catch fire.</p><p></p><p>2) A young cousin of mine came over during a family gathering and was surfing around on my machine unsupervised. He managed to- against all probability- somehow download a file that contained a virus that affected Macs. I lost a lot of data and had to have some of it professionally recovered- that cost me $$$$.</p><p></p><p>That is <strong>it.</strong></p><p></p><p>My Dad's 15 year old Apple laptop would still function if he could get a power cord for it. Of course, its so old that about all he could do on it is play old games, but that's a different issue.</p><p></p><p>Now, I <em>have</em> had some issues with peripherals. I have a pair of removable media drives- an Imation superdisk and an original Iomega Zip- that no longer function properly, but they're about 10 years old. I've also had a couple of keyboards malfunction- both non-Mac (I don't care for the ergonomics of the current Mac keyboards). And I can't say I've been pleased with Mac compatible gaming peripherals, either, but 90% of those aren't made by Apple anyway.</p><p></p><p>In contrast, many of my PC using buddies are always talking about malfunctions and the like. <em>However,</em> I realize that they're also not typical users- almost all of them are programmers, so they're likely trying to push their equipment harder than the average user.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 4593331, member: 19675"] I've been using Apples- and now Macs- since 1985 or so. I can count on 1 hand the number of technical difficulties I've had, and those resulted from human actions (IOW, abuse): 1) A guy liked the sound my Apple IIe made when rebooting, so when he visited me, he'd turn it on and off- rapidly. This caused one drive to catch fire. 2) A young cousin of mine came over during a family gathering and was surfing around on my machine unsupervised. He managed to- against all probability- somehow download a file that contained a virus that affected Macs. I lost a lot of data and had to have some of it professionally recovered- that cost me $$$$. That is [B]it.[/B] My Dad's 15 year old Apple laptop would still function if he could get a power cord for it. Of course, its so old that about all he could do on it is play old games, but that's a different issue. Now, I [I]have[/I] had some issues with peripherals. I have a pair of removable media drives- an Imation superdisk and an original Iomega Zip- that no longer function properly, but they're about 10 years old. I've also had a couple of keyboards malfunction- both non-Mac (I don't care for the ergonomics of the current Mac keyboards). And I can't say I've been pleased with Mac compatible gaming peripherals, either, but 90% of those aren't made by Apple anyway. In contrast, many of my PC using buddies are always talking about malfunctions and the like. [I]However,[/I] I realize that they're also not typical users- almost all of them are programmers, so they're likely trying to push their equipment harder than the average user. [/QUOTE]
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