Mac look alike?

[Avi Greenbury]

Odd wrote:

> Well, it's certainly more reliable than your faith-based
> opinions on Apple hw.

Whoah.

You're citing some not-to-be-argued-with text against someone else's
personal experience, and /he's/ the religious nutbar?

I don't trust that survey simply because it goes so far against my
personal experience. I can't say why they'd fake it, I'm not even
saying it's necessarily wrong. But it's saying things that disagree
quite directly with my experience.

I'm open to being corrected in this manner - maybe the set of hardware
that I've seen is a peculiar subset - but it's certainly going to take
more than a single survey for me to decide that Apple's actually aren't
generally better built than their competition.

I don't think there's anything wrong with Alan's scepticism. If those
results are accurate, they will be corroborated by other surveys. If
they're not, they will be disputed by them.
Either way, I _know_ that apple and IBM hardware has tended to fare
better in the environment I tend to put my laptops through than Acer
or Dell. This might or might not be caused by the relative quality of
their construction, but I'm not about to discount several years of
experience on the basis of a single online survey, irrespective of
the standing of its publisher.

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