Mac look alike?

[Avi Greenbury]

Odd wrote:

> Chris Jones wrote:
> >> Thats a lie.  I can get a machine with just as high quality and
> >> power as the mac mini for around $350 to $400 dollars.  Macbooks
> >> are of no more superior quality as a lot of PC based laptops.
> >> Personally I would prefer a Dell laptop over a Macbook any day.
> > 
> > Its not a lie, its my opinion. You may disagree and that is fine. I
> > wouldn't be so rude to call your opinion a lie so please give me the
> > same courtesy.
> 
> Facts disagree with you:
> http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/laptop-reliability-survey-asus-and-toshiba-win-hp-fails/
> 
> There are three companies ahead of Apple.

One of which is Sony, who attract the same criticism for being
'overpriced'. I've no idea how Acer ended up there, though, they feel
flimsy as hell. Toshiba's not much of a surprise, they've long been a
boring and reliable laptop manufacturer.
Irrespective of the results of that, I'd side with apple hardware just
because of the amount of them I see in the real world that *still*
haven't broken. 

But it's not just failures. One of the fantastic things about apples is
the support which, to my knowledge, no Windows PC pusher equals. 
Apple, and more pertinently real-life people in a real-life shop, will
support the whole box - hardware, os, applications etc., whereas the
traditional support model with Windows boxes is for the hardware
manufacturer to blame the software, and the software people to blame
the hardware.

Of course, apples are also mostly inarguably better designed than their
Windows brethren, and this is patently something people are (and long
have been) willing to pay for.

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