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Losing Faith in Apple
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The defect rate for any electronic product should be more like 0.1%-0.2%, and certainly NOT anywhere near 20%. I know if our company got back even close to 1% heads would roll; we have run at less that 0.1% for the 7 years I have been with my present company. 20% is just completely absurd.ncook06 said:ONLY 20%?
Not to be taking a jab at you by any means, but 1 out of every 5 of the computers shipped having to be repaired does not seem good to me.
that's some stunningly bad luck. I've had bad luck, but nothing compared to the OP!
among me and my family, we've had:
1 powermac G4 MDD - DOA
1 powerbook G4 15" - DOA
1 imac G4 15" - DOA
1 book G3 12" - backlight died
1 book G4 12" - HD died (and several other minor defects)
1 macbook - logic board failed
but that's compared to:
1 LC III
2 powermac G3s
1 imac G3
1 ibook G3 14"
1 ibook G4 14"
1 powerbook G4 12"
1 emac
1 powermac G5
That have been perfect. Add to that the replacements for the faulty powermac G4, imac G4, and macbook that were all perfect (the ibook G3 and G4 were repaired, and the powerbook returned for a refund) and my family and I have had:
6 seriously faulty macs and 12 perfect ones. That's a 1/3 failure rate - not good, not good at all. But the OP is 0 for 5!! Now that's some bad luck!
among me and my family, we've had:
1 powermac G4 MDD - DOA
1 powerbook G4 15" - DOA
1 imac G4 15" - DOA
1 book G3 12" - backlight died
1 book G4 12" - HD died (and several other minor defects)
1 macbook - logic board failed
but that's compared to:
1 LC III
2 powermac G3s
1 imac G3
1 ibook G3 14"
1 ibook G4 14"
1 powerbook G4 12"
1 emac
1 powermac G5
That have been perfect. Add to that the replacements for the faulty powermac G4, imac G4, and macbook that were all perfect (the ibook G3 and G4 were repaired, and the powerbook returned for a refund) and my family and I have had:
6 seriously faulty macs and 12 perfect ones. That's a 1/3 failure rate - not good, not good at all. But the OP is 0 for 5!! Now that's some bad luck!
If it helps, I have (in my life) owned 9 apple products, most of which I still use:
Apple //c
512k Macintosh
Powerbook 145
Performa 6200
imac G3 400mHz
G3 b/w 350mHz
ibook G3 700mHz
G4 Sawtooth 400mHz
ibook G4 1gHz
ipod 512mb shuffle
Along with various Apple printers and monitors on the older apple/macs. And I've never heard of the amount of problems you've been having, though I do agree that the reliability of Apple products has declined a bit in the past five years, but then the reliability of ALL products on the planet have. People don't take pride in their work anymore, they simply mass produce for lowest price, as the attitude is "it's cheaper to fix/replace bad ones than to produce ones we KNOW will work". Just a sign of the times mixed with bad luck, I'd wager...
Apple //c
512k Macintosh
Powerbook 145
Performa 6200
imac G3 400mHz
G3 b/w 350mHz
ibook G3 700mHz
G4 Sawtooth 400mHz
ibook G4 1gHz
ipod 512mb shuffle
Along with various Apple printers and monitors on the older apple/macs. And I've never heard of the amount of problems you've been having, though I do agree that the reliability of Apple products has declined a bit in the past five years, but then the reliability of ALL products on the planet have. People don't take pride in their work anymore, they simply mass produce for lowest price, as the attitude is "it's cheaper to fix/replace bad ones than to produce ones we KNOW will work". Just a sign of the times mixed with bad luck, I'd wager...
re:Losing Faith in Apple
NCook,
Our school has MacOs desktops and they most of them crashed daily. We are moving to Dells. The unfortunate thing is all of my work will not transfer over to the Dells.
I feel your pain but I must buy another mac for home in order to save my hours and hours of work-I just Have no clue what to buy!! and yes I am in the lightning capital bay area. We are all on surge protectors.
By the way--all of the Dells our school bought are included in the recall so our luck any work that I have created on the dell laptop will probably explode!!
NCook,
Our school has MacOs desktops and they most of them crashed daily. We are moving to Dells. The unfortunate thing is all of my work will not transfer over to the Dells.
I feel your pain but I must buy another mac for home in order to save my hours and hours of work-I just Have no clue what to buy!! and yes I am in the lightning capital bay area. We are all on surge protectors.
By the way--all of the Dells our school bought are included in the recall so our luck any work that I have created on the dell laptop will probably explode!!
could it be something as simple as electrical build up from your carpet (especially if you wear plastic soled shoes?) or something like that?