Mac Hardware = Bad Quality?

[generik]

I avoid Maxtor like the plague because their drives crap out on me too much (I'm sure others have similar horror stories about the other companies though...). I've given the seagate and wd drives I have a good beating, and they haven't failed so far except one, which was partially my fault. Also, seagate has awesome crazy long warranties.

Actually if you read the terms about Seagate's warranty it isn't really a true 5 year warranty. Beyond the 3rd year what happens is Seagate will give you a certain % of your drive's value based on some.. system.. they got, and you can then apply that credit towards a future Seagate drive.

In reality it is really just a typical 3 year warranty, except that if it fails within 5 years they sweeten the deal a little to make you rebuy another Seagate. Sounds like smart marketing more than a good warranty to me.

 

[Eidorian]

Actually if you read the terms about Seagate's warranty it isn't really a true 5 year warranty. Beyond the 3rd year what happens is Seagate will give you a certain % of your drive's value based on some.. system.. they got, and you can then apply that credit towards a future Seagate drive.

In reality it is really just a typical 3 year warranty, except that if it fails within 5 years they sweeten the deal a little to make you rebuy another Seagate. Sounds like smart marketing more than a good warranty to me.

Ah, now that's something that's good to know. Thank you.

 

[janey]

@generik - can you link me to a place that says that? cause i don't have packaging for any around, if it has a paper with the terms of the warranty on it, and nothing like that is on the seagate site.


What I did find is that Seagate is acquiring Maxtor, forgot about that, eek.

 

[generik]

@generik - can you link me to a place that says that? cause i don't have packaging for any around, if it has a paper with the terms of the warranty on it, and nothing like that is on the seagate site.


What I did find is that Seagate is acquiring Maxtor, forgot about that, eek.

After I made that post I tried to look for a link too, but strangely I can't find that anymore. Either way nobody has a chance to test Seagate's warranty beyond the 3rd year yet, since it is such a new program, so I doubt we'd hear any accounts soon.

 

[janey]

After I made that post I tried to look for a link too, but strangely I can't find that anymore. Either way nobody has a chance to test Seagate's warranty beyond the 3rd year yet, since it is such a new program, so I doubt we'd hear any accounts soon.

k thanks, i'll be looking to see if i can find more details next time i purchase a seagate drive. not that i'd use the warranty ever, but it's nice to know.

 

[generik]

Anyway in the spirit of this thread, perhaps this quote from good ol' Steve will stir a few spines...

"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth -- and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."
Fortune, Feb. 19, 1996

 

[EricNau]

Anyway in the spirit of this thread, perhaps this quote from good ol' Steve will stir a few spines...

"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth -- and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."
Fortune, Feb. 19, 1996

Too bad he was wrong. The PC wars are still going strong.

 

[generik]

Too bad he was wrong. The PC wars are still going strong.

He certainly is milking the nipples of Mac of its holy manna

 

[gnasher729]

I'm currently saving up to buy a consumer apple notebook (ibook G4/intel macbook?) for next fall.

On Macrumors you will find there are many more people complaining about things going wrong with Macs than about things going wrong with Dells. On Dellrumors, you would find many more people complaining about Dells. Except that Dells are so boring, nobody ever bothered creating www.Dellrumors.com.

Fact is, things go wrong everywhere. The two questions are: How often do things go wrong, and what happens if things go wrong? I think Apple is quite better than average on both questions. One big advantage is the three year warranty that you can purchase anytime in the first year; so if you think your Mac is slightly less good quality than average, you buy the extended warranty two days before the end of the first year. If you have no problems with the Mac whatsoever, you don't buy it.

 

[0098386]

I don't know where this whole "mac is expensive" myth came from. heres my experiences

I bought a laptop in 2002. IBM. Very good quality. cost me around £1400. Good hardware.
Bought a £999 laptop in 2005. Very powerful, very bad hardware quality.
Bought a PowerBook for £960 in 2005 too. Sweet lord the hardware quality is unsurpassed. At least in it's price range it's VERY good value for money.

And that's the whole point. For their price you get very good quality. of course you can buy a PC laptop but you'll probably end up paying more, as I have in the past. Apple=Don.

 

[FFTT]

If you go through the Archives of this or any other Mac forum, how many times have the seasoned users told people to pass on "Rev A" gear?

Yes they work and some releases are amazing, but the design and engineering of cutting edge gear also depends on final implementation.

Many of the issues you read about are caused by faulty 3rd party components
that are engineered to meet certain specifications, but do not hold up
in the real world.

This goes for any manufacturer.