Laptop reliability, apple is in 4th (Figure 5)

http://www.squaretrade.com/htm/pdf/SquareTrade_laptop_reliability_1109.pdf

Shows that apple are no more reliable than your average PC.

Also add that premium laptops fail less and the other manufacturers on there make more than just premium laptops as opposed to apple who only make premium machines.

Suggests that this whole apple "it just works" thing and "superior design" to quote some fanbois isn't true. Now who would have thought it hey?

I know of more than one professional Television VT Editor that now prefers to edit on PCs. They claim the Macs do crash and some of the drag and drop type features are a pain for their work. They also do some of their graphics stuff on the PCs too

I know of more than one professional Television VT Editor that now prefers to edit on PCs. They claim the Macs do crash and some of the drag and drop type features are a pain for their work. They also do some of their graphics stuff on the PCs too

A lot of the back end stuff runs linux for sure

I would agree, my brother has a 13 month old 20" iMac that the HDD failed in 2 weeks ago, his best friend who has a 8 month old 24" iMac has had a logic board replaced under warranty.

I dont think the reliability is anything like it used to be! exactly the reason why the month before the warranty on my macbook pro expires i will be taking out apple care extended warranty.

I know the internals may not what they used to be, but the build quality of my 15.4" unibody is second to none, its a beautiful bit of kit thats a real pleasure to use. I dont know any PC based laptops that come even close in that respect. I am fully prepared to be told i'm wrong, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder i guess. :P

Saying all that, when it comes to replacing my desktop machine, it will be PC all the way! I am still a game geek at heart.

If they are rating each company according to reliability, won't Gateway fall under Acer

It's only since they started using the same bits as PCs internally. I have three macs as well as my PCs and the oldest one, a ten year old iMac DV, runs OSX and still works perfectly. The titanium G4 downstairs has only had one glitch in 6 years and that was from a power cut, and the grey G4 had its power supply blown in a thunderstorm but no other ill effects.

we are using an avolites pearl titan to control our stage lighting at work and that is dual core windows xp based. at first i had real reservations about windows running something as critical in a live environment. but touch-wood it has been trouble free in the few months we've had it, it used o be the norm for every decent bit of kit to be mac based but it seems to be slowing shifting back to pc's again

we are using an avolites pearl titan to control our stage lighting at work and that is dual core windows xp based. at first i had real reservations about windows running something as critical in a live environment. but touch-wood it has been trouble free in the few months we've had it, it used o be the norm for every decent bit of kit to be mac based but it seems to be slowing shifting back to pc's again

I remember working on a TV Boxing program where the lighting director was using these new fangled Vari-lights on a hot head kind of thingumygig. We were amazed at them. He could put them over the corners during the breaks between the rounds and it made the boxers corners look very moody. Then with the flick of a switch he could spin them up and flood them, to illuminate the ring for the round. Fantastic! Well it was till the British title fight came on and after several rounds the lights refused to leave their corner position. We had to hold the bout (after a stop half way through) purely on the Sports Hall’s house lights

I know of more than one professional Television VT Editor that now prefers to edit on PCs. They claim the Macs do crash and some of the drag and drop type features are a pain for their work. They also do some of their graphics stuff on the PCs too

Thing is £ for £ you've always been able to buy a more powerful PC for Mac money.

The whole Art/Mac thing came from the fact that in the early days, you could only get photoshop on a Mac - as it was designed for it. The same for Illustrator.

These days most art studios have moved to PC due to costs.