14 Sep
2004
14 Sep
'04
9:36 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason McBrien" <jbmcb(a)hotmail.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: laptop incident
A bunch of my friends run tech support for a large
university in Michigan.
Between the four of them they do tech support for faculty and run the help
desk. They all use iBooks and Powerbooks, and reccomend them to anyone who
asks. They are not Mac zealots, they use and support all kinds of hardware
and software, and swear by the Mac platform. They've spec'd out, set up,
used and repaired probably every type of laptop manufactured (The
University
does not have a "Standard Hardware" policy)
and they say they have far
fewer
problems with Apple hardware than any other make.
Me, I'm saving up for the big-screen Powerbook :)
Even if you hate OSX, just run anything else you want on it :)
http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/vpc/
That doesn't include Yellow Dog linux, running natively, of course :)
What ever happened to asking people what software they need to run and
recommending a platform that runs that software? A Mac laptop is a nice
machine, unless you need to run something windows based. If you need to run
Final Cut Pro don't get a DELL.
From what I have seen Apple Laptops have their share of
problems, which is
why everybody buys the extended Apple warranty. When the extended
warranty
runs out in 3 years most problems will cost major $$$ to fix, I assume the
PC laptops are about the same. Maybe I am wrong, but modern day laptops are
not made for long term survivability these days.