Tosser,
problems = get it fixed under warranty = problem solved
not trying to resolve issue, just talk about it = problem will not magically go away
Do you really think, that people (including myself) don't try getting things resolved? The reality is, that while they fix it (after spending days (combined) on the phone convincing them it is a problem), you don't actually have the comuter in the meantime. Fixing things once is fine, and as it should be, but getting one faulty after another, and having to calculate when buying something, whether it's worth buying it, if you have to have it replaced or repaired, say, three times in a row, before you _might_ get a working one?
You really are a jokster.
If you use PC often, then you would have a point of reference.
I use a PC every other day on average. My point of reference is quite good actually. Other than that, most of my PC-friends have thinkpads, dells, and HPs, and their hardware works. Yes, some of them have had to have the battery exchanged, but that's about it. The only laptops they have had problems with are cheap-arse ones bought at the supermarket.
I am looking a Dell with
busted power button (have to press hard with a pen to work)
bad USB port (plastic piece fell off, have to be careful to plug something in)
bad power supply (have to jiggle the cord to charge)
Coming from you, I rather doubt it, when the best you could come up with earlier on, was some links to battery recalls.
In addition, I've seen many vista laptops that won't even work with standard projectors' VGA / DVI port due to lack of drivers in vista (hello, OS8, 9, X can do it without drivers, and without pressing retarded key combinations and sometimes reboots, if it works).
No computer can do any such thing without a driver to interact with the device plugged in. Don't be stupid.
Anyway, regarding Vista: I don't use it, nor do I intend to use it. When I use a PC, I use XP, and have recently installed Ubuntu on my MBP, and will get to learn it before I ahve to buy new hardware.
I do see your point, though, that the OS means something. But first of all, I can get a hackintosh (and run Ubuntu + XP on "the side"), secondly, the OS doesn't make up for not having the computer to run it, because it's _once again_ in for repair. Who cares about what OS a computer at a repair center runs?
My 17" Santa Rosa MBP runs windows app faster than many small company servers. Yes, nothing is perfect, but compared to what's out there, it's better.
Propably. At least you claim as much. But if that computer suddenly stops working, who cares that it's faster than "many small company servers"?
As far as I'm concerned, buying Apple hardware has become a hit'n'miss affair – either it works (and you count yourself lucky), or it doesn't, and you are all set for an ordeal with Apple Europe, usually taking at least a month before they'll even accept there is anything wrong with the thing. I am not willing to make that bet anymore – the odds for getting a lemon has increased horrendously in the recent years. And frankly, I just don't like loosing money because of downtime.
The only reason I didn't switch back when, was because there was no proper audio-editor for Ubuntu that fit my work(flow). There is now.
