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I have no clue where you get any of your information from. I find it quite wrong.

I've been using Apple products since well before the original Macintosh. I've been using PCs before Apple had anything on the market.

Looks? Who buys a computer for looks? My Mac Pro is under my desk. It could look like an old boot, and I wouldn't care. The hardware works, and I shove all kinds of items into mine. And my G5. And my G4's. And the G3's in various formats. And laptops. And standalones including iMacs.

Reliability? I keep functioning hardware around so long that I eventually end up in a market where they are worth nothing. The hardware has been nothing but superb for me. Your Macbook is not the Apple line of products. Apple QA is very good.

As for PCs, the compatibility issues alone would drive me up the wall. The OS is notoriously unintuitive, and the last couple releases worse than before. I won't even go near the browser. The company has has trust issues in the past, and recently with the announcement of Ballmer's departure, the stock went up. All after Gates bailed.

And one thing I would say to anybody that writes software for a living: Your workstation is the last place you want to be looking to save money. It's the very tool you use to get stuff done.

If you have problems with your Macbook, then continue on Apple and encourage others to follow suit. Enough complaints and they will address a problem. They always have. Try that with Samsung. My 30" monitor from them was dead end because no repair options when it went on the fritz. Samsung doesn't even fix their own stuff. So it's dump and run from them.

My $0.02.



On Feb 25, 2014, at 6:18 PM, Yin Wang <yinwang0@gmail.com> wrote:

> I would suggest a new PC instead of an old Mac if the prices are similar. Macs are good looking but not really that good in terms of reliability. My new macbook pro 13" retina display and Haswell processor crashes badly. Everybody was affected for late 2013 model. Apple released a firmware fix but it's still not really fixed. Now it comes to a deadly stop once per a day or two! Apple is quite loose these days for its quality control. A day's using it would have discovered the problem. I have no idea how they could have released these defective products.

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