On 3/11/07, david <gnome@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > On 3/10/07, carmen <_@email-addr-hidden-your.name> wrote:
> >> everything is made by Compal, Quanta, and ASUS. can you really
> >> discriminate by western "brand" ?
> >>
> >> if Apple is selling a notebook for $1099 and HP is selling the same
> >> thing for $599, i'd get the HP - call me crazy
> >
> > How do you know it's the same thing? Even if the specs are identical,
> > I would expect Apple to have a much better QA process to catch things
> > like singing capacitors that most PC buyers don't care about.
> >
> > Although, Apple's quality control has slipped a lot lately - the 2006
> > Macbook I am typing this on had to be returned to the shop to fix the
> > infamous "random shutdown disorder".
>
> At least it didn't set your house on fire! (Google search for "Dell
> laptop house fire" or something like that ... )
Well from what I read, it could have... the random shutdowns were
caused by a short circuit (aka cheap components).
Anyway I expect this stuff from PC vendors who compete on price, not
from Apple...
Lee
Received on Mon Mar 12 04:15:03 2007
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