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"Then you seriously haven't opened up a Dell desktop. I've serviced both Dell and Macs and personally I wouldn't even compare to two in terms of quality of components"

I have had a Dell Precision workstation for a little over a year. It ran XP for the first ten months; Vista for the past four. I have never had a single problem with it. Not one.

I bought a 17" Macbook Pro 2 weeks ago. In that time, I have had it kernel panic twice and completely lock up once.

A statistical anomaly, perhaps?

No I don't believe you. Dell has had some good computers in the past, likewise, Apple has had some bad ones. The newer Dell's that are standard where I work are junk and are always having powersupply issues.

Dell Continues to Take Market Share Beating
http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17736/Dell-Continues-to-Take-Market...

Because of their high quality?

I second this. Where I work we ordered fairly high priced (mildly put) Dells a few months ago. The freaking fans on everything are all having hard time functioning in many of them and producing wonderful sounds. The mice and keyboards are about the worst quality ones I've ever seen.

Dell's Business service is the best I have seen. when I call support for warrenty issues they will take my word for it (Instead of spending 3 hours trying different tests to make sure the hardware is broke before they do anything like HP) I have all ready had situations where Dell shipped parts from Texas to Wisconsin in 6 hours for a low end Poweredge server

It true.

My Dell is over four years old and still running strong.

If anyone has a worser qaulity product it would a Apple.

http://www.appledefects.com/

You now Bill Gates, myself, you and MS created that site just to hurt Apple!

I have a Dell thats several years old. was a p3 667mhz, I upgraded it, using and adapter, to a 1.4 tualatin. Its been one of my best machines... But it's an OLD Dell. I wouldn't give you a penny for any of the new machines. I've had 3 newer ones, all p4s, and they all died after about 18-24months.

I've also had to work on a lot of newer machines... The motherboards conk out and the powersupplies fail quite often agai, this is in my experience.

"It true.

My Dell is over four years old and still running strong.

If anyone has a worser qaulity product it would a Apple. "


Yea... Ok... Sure... We beleive you! Next time you are in a apple store. Go open one of those new Xeon Mac towers and tell us all what you see! QUALITY... the inside of a mac is just a beautiful as the outside... maybe enve more!

@ Xaero

Why don't you publish some official info from a consumer organization? Anyone can post a biased website like that. I could tell people to go and check http://www.ihatedell.net/ for example.

Please go and check what the latest Consumer Reports has say about hardware quality (surprise, surprise, Apple has the best scores and the less % of machines needing repair).

http://www.consumerreports.org (requires registration)

If you don't want to register, you can read it all over the web. Here is one example:

http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/05/30.1.shtml

:-)

Macs are behind the PC when it comes to hardware. This is a fact that is not debatable by Mac fanboys. The PC is pushing tech while the Mac is just sleek and over priced for what you get.

Without the iPod Apple would be close to death. Macs are not going to save Apple. It was the iPod that saved Apple.

Apple is going more and more towards a software company. I believe in the near future Apple OS will be released to generic hardware. For all you Mac fanboys out there who say this will never happen let me remind you that "if" I had said four years ago that Apple would start using Intel chips you would have said this would never happen.

The bottom line is the Mac is behind the PC but yet Apple wants to charge a price as if it's on the same level as the PC. Without OSX and the sleek looks the Macs are just plain PC's. Macs do not have SLI, Crossfire, EAX, etc.... and when compared to the PC they look very bad.

Spin all you want fanboys but the fact is your beloved Mac is less than 4% of the market share and it's not going to get much better unless OSX is released to generic hardware.

The PC I'm typing on right now blows away the best iMac. If I put OSX on my PC it would out perform Apple's Macs. And just for your imformation fanboys I build PC's and I use top quality parts.

Oh by the way fanboys what sound chipset is used in Macs? The local Mac genius could not answer this question for me. LOL!

The future of Apple is the iPod and software. Doubt my words? Why did Apple delay the updated OSX for the iPhone? Hummm?

Edited 2007-05-31 17:00

"Oh by the way fanboys what sound chipset is used in Macs? The local Mac genius could not answer this question for me. LOL! "

All that says is that your Local Mac Genius isn't all he is cracked up to be, or that he doesn't care, because it just works(tm)

LOL! The "it just works" (tm)! That was a good one.

Please will some Mac fanboy tell me what sound chip a Mac uses?

Onboard sound just works also but atleast I know what I'm buying when I purchase a motherboard.

How is the Mac behind?

Macs were the first put in USB, they were the first with Firewire, the first with 802.11N, first with EFI, etc...

Macs DO have SLI, have you ever tried to configure a Mac Pro? You can add up to 3 graphics cards to it. You can buy a Creative sound card and pop it in to your Mac, just like you would have to on just about any PC in existence.

So your custom built PC is better than a bottom of the line iMac? What do you know, who woulda thunk it.

Most likely it's a Realtek or Sigmatel chipset.

Myth or not, Macs do hold their value MUCH better than PCs.