QUOTE(dannytzh @ Aug 5 2007, 12:16 AM)
There's no proof that says apple's product has higher quality than ALL others. The argument that mac products last longer than PC products are highly debatable. Eg. Some people are still running x486 machines. Some mac products break down in less than 3 months. The fact is there are so many manufacturers of PC products compared to sole production line of mac, thus the idea of having one quality inspection unit over all these manufacturers is quite a luxury.
I don't think Apple's build quality is always as superb as legend makes it out to be. However, I find the quality aspect comes in the design, both of the hardware and in particular of the OS. I am an IT pro, and I use Macs at home because I don't want to waste my own time coddling my computer. I want to use it. It has always provided me with that. I see Windows users dealing with viruses and trying to uninstall software, get hardware to cooperate, etc... and I used to have to spend some of my work time helping them with this as well.
I have never once done the reformat and reinstall ritual in over 20 years of Mac use - even when doing major OS version upgrades. When I get extra hardware, I research it for a few minutes online, then buy it, plug it in, and go. I don't install the driver CDs or anything, it just works. I basically never spend any time maintaining the computer or dealing with its issues, it just works for me every single day. That's what I call quality.
Aug 6 2007, 03:29 PM
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