I got a MacBook in 2007. The hard drive failed about 10 months later. Apple replaced it. Sounds like I wasn't alone, that particular component was unreliable.
Believe me, when that happens, you are not thinking "who is paying for this?", you are thinking "how good is my back-up and how much time will it take me to recover my data, applications and settings?" In my case, I had a complete back-up from when I had installed Boot Camp a few weeks earlier and I could restore everything directly. When a similar problem occurred on my Windows PC I had to spend a full day restoring and rebuilding and re-installing stuff.
Didn't mind that though, the Windows PC is at work and my company prefers to pay me for a wasted day of computer re-builds every so often.
Your drink, is that the release candidate for Microsoft Kool-Aid 2010?
Windows 7 was a definite step in the right direction for Microsoft, and as always, evidence of the wonder that is Microsoft's incredible reworking of an ordinary office Xerox into a glorious tool of OS development, but it is hardly rock solid. Vista was an absolute disaster, a software Chernobyl. From its certification on machines that just plain shouldn't have attempted to run it to God-awful drivers, the issues with Nvidia in particular.
In comparison, Leopard had a few minor and easily rectified issues. Some things that managed to slip by testing that required a couple patches for some applications. Otherwise it ran perfectly on the machines it was certified for. You're comparing a train wreck (Vista) to a scratch in the paint. Of course, you don't have any idea what you're talking about. You are troll, or a fool pretending to know something you simply don't. You said "many pages of complaints" rather than provide actual links, you said "bad press" instead of providing actual links. You're reiterating what you've heard or making crap up, instead of looking anything up. Always a smart move!
Oh, and here's another thing, SNOW LEOPARD is the most recent version, released two months before Windows 7. If you had any idea what you were talking about, you would have cited the most recent version rather than Leopard, especially when trying to tell us where Apple is TODAY, Leopard was released back in 2007 and kicked Vista's butt from then on. As it should have, Vista should never have been released.
You didn't even know what the most recent version of Mac OS X was, what sort of expert could you possibly be? And are you really suggesting that there is anything honestly comparable to the iPhone in the smartphone market? Wow. My good sir, this is not the floor of the U.S. Senate, we operate on fact here and with all the respect in the world to modern media, mere assertion does not make fact. The facts are quite simply not on your side.
This drink, does it come in cherry?
Now, go ahead, say what ye will. I won't bother with response, although others may if they wish. Have a nice day.
Leopard was a joke and the price of the subsequent release of Snow Leopard proves it. Snow Leopard should have been the Leopard release, Leopard was buggy and far less stable than they had planned for. I'm a Mac user, so I'm not trolling for responses, it's a fact that Leopard was far from a stellar release for Apple.
I bought my 2ghz black MacBook a couple days after they were released. Sure enough, my hard drive died about 3 months before Applecare would have expired. I got lucky, but yeah -- it would've been excuse to get a larger HD (I have an 80gb).
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Believe me, when that happens, you are not thinking "who is paying for this?", you are thinking "how good is my back-up and how much time will it take me to recover my data, applications and settings?" In my case, I had a complete back-up from when I had installed Boot Camp a few weeks earlier and I could restore everything directly. When a similar problem occurred on my Windows PC I had to spend a full day restoring and rebuilding and re-installing stuff.
Didn't mind that though, the Windows PC is at work and my company prefers to pay me for a wasted day of computer re-builds every so often.
Your drink, is that the release candidate for Microsoft Kool-Aid 2010?
Windows 7 was a definite step in the right direction for Microsoft, and as always, evidence of the wonder that is Microsoft's incredible reworking of an ordinary office Xerox into a glorious tool of OS development, but it is hardly rock solid. Vista was an absolute disaster, a software Chernobyl. From its certification on machines that just plain shouldn't have attempted to run it to God-awful drivers, the issues with Nvidia in particular.
In comparison, Leopard had a few minor and easily rectified issues. Some things that managed to slip by testing that required a couple patches for some applications. Otherwise it ran perfectly on the machines it was certified for. You're comparing a train wreck (Vista) to a scratch in the paint. Of course, you don't have any idea what you're talking about. You are troll, or a fool pretending to know something you simply don't. You said "many pages of complaints" rather than provide actual links, you said "bad press" instead of providing actual links. You're reiterating what you've heard or making crap up, instead of looking anything up. Always a smart move!
Oh, and here's another thing, SNOW LEOPARD is the most recent version, released two months before Windows 7. If you had any idea what you were talking about, you would have cited the most recent version rather than Leopard, especially when trying to tell us where Apple is TODAY, Leopard was released back in 2007 and kicked Vista's butt from then on. As it should have, Vista should never have been released.
You didn't even know what the most recent version of Mac OS X was, what sort of expert could you possibly be? And are you really suggesting that there is anything honestly comparable to the iPhone in the smartphone market? Wow. My good sir, this is not the floor of the U.S. Senate, we operate on fact here and with all the respect in the world to modern media, mere assertion does not make fact. The facts are quite simply not on your side.
This drink, does it come in cherry?
Now, go ahead, say what ye will. I won't bother with response, although others may if they wish. Have a nice day.
Leopard was a joke and the price of the subsequent release of Snow Leopard proves it. Snow Leopard should have been the Leopard release, Leopard was buggy and far less stable than they had planned for. I'm a Mac user, so I'm not trolling for responses, it's a fact that Leopard was far from a stellar release for Apple.