"When one takes the seamless integration, stability, ease of use, quality engineering, the TCO, and the ability to boot Windows, one can easily conclude that a Mac is not necessarily a more expensive proposition. The argument that Mac's are too expensive no longer applies. Although you can spend between $600 and several thousand for a Mac, stay within your means and purchase a system that meets your computing demands."
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Cheap shot on the "quality engineering"-link. Don't start editorializing in summaries - please.
Cheap shot? I think you'll find it's the truth. Are you trying to say that those overheating, battery problems and other defects are a myth?
These are things that people, supposedly, pay a premium and good money to Apple for initially in order to get payback in terms of quality and 'TCO' (a loaded acronym) in the long run. Thom was perfectly right, and pretty insightful, in pointing that out.
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Cheap shot? I think you'll find it's the truth. Are you trying to say that those overheating, battery problems and other defects are a myth?
They represent a small minority in a large group of satisfied customers. It's also a sweeping generalisation to dismiss a companies whole product line based on some faulty specimens of one particular model.
But that's irrelevant, I objected to turning the story summary into a mini-editorial expressing an opinion thus turning it into flamebait. People can make up their own mind without the sarcastic linkage.
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It's a cheap shot because it blows the whole "Apple defect" thing out of proportion. I've got three Macs in the house (an iMac CD, a DC PowerMac, and a Macbook), and they all run flawlessly. Meanwhile, the two PCs left in the house* all have some level of weirdness. When the PCs are acting up, do you know what my family does? They go use the iMac, because its always working. Hell, it works more reliably than our toaster, which burns Eggo waffles randomly.
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Thom, I think that most of your readership actually have a sense of humour and appreciate your light sattire.
Hell guys, Thom is making a serious point and providing some balance to a seriously one-sided article. It is the job of any journalist to be dispassionate and just linking to articles that sell Apple is hardly that.
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2005-07-06
Cheap shot on the "quality engineering"-link. Don't start editorializing in summaries - please.