Dean Wilson@UnixDaemon: ... It's not even close to relevant.

Sat, 18 Feb 2006

Shiny Laptops but Shoddy Hardware
I'm not a Mac fan, I tried. I really did. After Paul Graham declared Macs supreme and the worthy of attention David Heinemeier Hansson bashed Windows developers I pulled my old iBook out of the cupboard and gave it another couple of weeks. And then went right back to my Dell Latitude running Windows (and Linux in VMWare).

While this is old ground for me what's recently bought my Mac hating to the forefront is the stupidly high number of hardware failures Mac laptops seem to have. I'm not sure if it's just shoddy hardware or that every Mac user I work with secretly takes his Mac home for some hard lovin' over the weekend but it's amazing how many of them break. And then come back from Apple still broken. I guess the people doing the repairs do their diagnostics using Apples as well...

While I've not seen any real numbers on it anecdotal evidence from tech conferences (and now the office) makes buying a Mac laptop look like a custody war, you get the machine most days but Applecare will get their fair amount of time over the years...

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