Apple takes 4th place in reliability.

[MuahMan]

Not that 4th place is that bad. It's just not as good as it's Windows
counterparts in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.

LOL

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/11/18/laptop_reliable/

[Justin]

So Microsoft makes laptops?
Asus sells Linux laptops - I wonder if that has anything to do with the
reliability.

[John Slade]

That's a pretty high rate of failure for Dells and HPs. I
always knew Toshiba, Sony and ASUS to make good quality
products. I have told these Mac zealots that Apple is no more
reliable than the next computer but they keep saying it. To be
honest, the computers I've built have a much lower rate of
failure than these from the big companies. My usual failure rate
is 10% after four years. Usually it's a HD or DVD/CD drive. Then
it's usually due to heavy use. But that was then, now I rarely
build whole systems from the ground up. Mostly I do upgrades and
repair the software problems.

John

[Lloyd Parsons]

In article <he1j8i$6d8$1...@news.eternal-september.org>,
John Slade <hhit...@pacbell.net> wrote:

How many notebooks do you build? You do realize this was talking about
notebooks?

[wetpixel]

In article <lloydparsons-C860...@port80.individual.net>,
Lloyd Parsons <lloydp...@mac.com> wrote:

> > That's a pretty high rate of failure for Dells and HPs. I
> > always knew Toshiba, Sony and ASUS to make good quality
> > products. I have told these Mac zealots that Apple is no more
> > reliable than the next computer but they keep saying it. To be
> > honest, the computers I've built have a much lower rate of
> > failure than these from the big companies. My usual failure rate
> > is 10% after four years. Usually it's a HD or DVD/CD drive. Then
> > it's usually due to heavy use. But that was then, now I rarely
> > build whole systems from the ground up. Mostly I do upgrades and
> > repair the software problems.
> >
> > John
>
> How many notebooks do you build? You do realize this was talking about
> notebooks?

Doesn't really matter: what he says he says isn't correct, anyway:

His most common statements about this have been, (and I know it looks
stupid, but these really are Slade's claims):

Macs are nothing but PCs now.
Macs are just like all the other PCs.
Macs are all made in china by sweatshop workers using the worst of
Chinese-made components in the most unreliable conditions.
Nothing in Macs is as good as the components in PCs.
All Macs are junk, nothing but clones, made in China.