Apple or Ubuntu

[Brian Fahrlander]

NoOp wrote:
> On 09/16/2007 08:18 PM, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> 
>>      And the hardware's good.  I mean really, really good. These units 
>> are designed to be worked on, to cause little trouble; to be of good 
>> power. One of the reasons I never bought one was the price...not the 
>> hardware.
> 
> Pffssst... I used to repair laptops for for some of my customers when
> they broke down. The common ones were PowerBook G4 laptops with crap
> power supplies and power cord connectors, heat and memory slot problems.
> They were/are high priced junk. After awhile I simply refused to work on
> them.

    Yeah, but you're talking laptops; since no standard exists, and it's 
sold like a component stereo (where all the components are made more 
cheaply than if they were sold on their own) this is going to happen. 
It's one of the reasons I don't yearn for a laptop.

     I'm surprised *anyone* wants to work on laptops.  Good companies 
make crap laptops all the time...and once in a while, a crap company 
makes a good laptop, too...see also: how Seagate was best, then worst, 
then best, etc.  :>

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