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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4593331" data-attributes="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 it.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 have 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.  However, 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.</blockquote>

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