I have been buying DOS, OS/2 and Windows boxes since 1982. The DOS and
OS/2 boxes were IBM, the Windows boxes have mostly been no-name hand
built from parts although of late I've been buying Dell. None of them
has ever failed completely to the point where I would decide to can it.
As best I recall in those 28 years I've had one failed video card
(heat failure from dust obscured fan), one failed secondary channel on
the motherboard's hard drive controller (fixed by adding an auxiliary
drive controller) and one failed 1.4MB floppy drive (probably also from
dirt buildup as many parts moved from machine to machine in my
build-it-yourself days). I thought at one time that a hard drive had
failed but it turned out to be that controller on the motherboard.
Of course, I think that one reason I've had so few failures is that I
generally change the machines out about every 3 years and get something
faster. Since PCs are cheap enough to do that you don't have to
amortize them over 5 years like a Mac. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/12/2010 3:47 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
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> From: Jan Steinman [mailto:Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 11:29 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] olympus Digest, Vol 26, Issue 9
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>> From: "Bill Pearce"<bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
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>> And yet I understand that everyone makes things that break now and then,
>> EVEN APPLE!
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> I don't think anyone on this list ever claimed that Apple products don't
> "break now and then."
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> But there are IDC studies that show they're generally more reliable that
> your average Windows box, and have a longer "in use" lifetime.
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> So you don't agree but you do? And my personal experience is that windows
> boxes last just as long as my apple friends use theirs.
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