There's occasionally things said about Mac reliability and there have
been problems (case cracking on white MacBooks I understand) but I
have to contribute here. I've been sitting on my hands too long.
In my Education Dept. (well, not 'mine' but you know what I mean)
teachers are offered and expected to take up a laptop (no, not
dancer) at a very small payment 3 year lease. At the school where I
work, teachers do roll marking, talk to each other and such things in
class, wifi, and it's becoming hard to operate without ("didn't you
get my email").
As part of an equity policy, they were obliged to offer Macs and
while they did everything to discourage, it's now seamless. I
demanded one many years ago and was punished - made to wait, charged
a bit more, 'we can't log them on to the network/yes you can'
arguments, even an argument with the Principal.
The experience of a few persistent fools like myself is beginning to
have effect. Once enabled, Macs don't break/breakdown. It doesn't
seem to happen. The Acers and then IBM Thinkpads that everyone else
got collapse all the time. They keep the IT guys busy and there's a
queue at the door. So now, quite suddenly, I'm beginning to see a lot
of white boxes around - up to about one third now. At three years old
some people don't want to upgrade them because of the inconvenience
of setting up the new one (not all of them find such things simple).
Meanwhile the 's**tbox' users start to get desperate after about 18
months.
Even the chaplain turned up with a new 15" MacBook Pro, to match his
new Ducati.
I no longer qualify for the teacher lease program but I just bought
myself a new run out 'old' white MacBook 13.3" - good price, academic
discount, lots of ports,.
Anyone want an ancient 12" G4 twin USB? Runs OSX 4 and CS1 just fine.
Useable and rock solid.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 29/10/2008, at 5:32 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> I wouldn't spend any time worrying about going refurb. My MacPro
> desktop is a refurb, and has been performing flawlessly for what, two
> years now? And it was a chunk of change less than the same box brand
> new. In fact, I think this is the first time I've ever had a computer
> that's working as well two years in as it did when I pulled it out of
> the box. The thought of upgrading barely crosses my mind before the
> question arises to drive it out: "What for?"
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