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Re: Just as I expected Not "A" Dell, a number of machines over the years including Toshiba, Lenovo, Dell (both workstations and sub $5K servers), HP, Compaq (when they weren't merged), Gateway, Asus...all were nothing to write home about. In my home and small business I have purchased dozens and dozens of servers and clients over the years, currently running about 30 Pee Cees and Macs. Of all of those brands, Toshiba and Lenovo (and IBM before them) were the only "Pee Cees" I would consider "good". The rest were garbage. And my Toshiba and Lenovos cost as much or more than a comparable Macintosh did/do. The only decent high end (or what was high end) Dell machine I have (in terms of reliability) is an Inspiron 9100 with a P4 EE 3.4 and it was nearly $4K new, certainly as much as any Powerbook.
I would agree with you if it were just 1 Dell that is thrown together like ass. But when you have a large percentage coming in (of various brands) with poor assembly quality, then later have hardware and/or software issues like dying power supplies you start to see a pattern. And for me it didn't matter how much I spent as I have the biggest problems with the most expensive machines. Meanwhile my army of G4 Mac Mini clients and eMac running OS X server run day and night without end, not a crash, not a kernel panic, nothin. They only reboot when an update comes down forcing a reboot or the power goes out. I'm sure there are people with Pee Cees with the same luck but I'm not one of 'em. My Dell servers, especially those running 2K3SBS require weekly restarts as they magically start refusing to authenticate clients and Dell support has no answers as to why.
Having a large number of Pee Cees and Macs and having to pay to support them I just see why some people would willingly pony up $1500 for a 24" iMac or MacBook or $2-$3K on a MacBook Pro or Mac Pro. I see them as a good buy even thought I might find a machine with the same processor cheaper elsewhere. To me there is much much more to a machine than what processor and graphics adapter are in it.
There are also a lot of people here that like tinkering with their machines or don't mind doing the necessary tweaks to get them running smoothly. I'm not one of those people any more. It was a great hobby in the early 80's into the 90's but now I just want a machine that I can take out of the box, install my software and have it just do it's job without endless hassle. I have more important things to do. I want to work WITH my machines, not work ON them. |
