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The newsgroup has been around since at least 1994. I'm not sure how much traffic it gets these days, but it used to get a fair amount in the days before the web was such a big deal.
I can still remember how disappointed we were when after exploring every building on campus , there were no steam tunnels.
Ahhh the good ole days.
--Silurian
And what's so wrong with generic hardware? I would much rather have a machine that I could maintain and get parts for down the road. I don't think I should have to replace my entire motherboard just to fix a bad video chip.
How about warranties? Apple has a 1 year warranty on most of their products. Dell has a 3 year warranty on all of its machines. Apple requires you to box the system up and ship it off to be repaired, even for something as trivial as a bad floppy drive. Dell sends someone out to fix it for you for the first year, then overnight parts for the next two years. You can even upgrade to a 3 year onsite warranty.
As for their design, its simple, it works, it keeps getting better. The new dells open up almost as easy as a g3. Push one button on the front and the side panel pops offs. Flip a lever, and the entire card chassis assembly comes out for the instillation of cards. It couldn't be much easier.
If dell can find users who want to buy an Idell, more power to them, but I really don't care what my machine looks like as long as it works and is maintainable. I'm not completely sure that the imac meets either one of those requirements.
You keep paying for your "ingenius" products, I'll keep buying something that can be maintained and configured to meet my needs.
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The newsgroup has been around since at least 1994. I'm not sure how much traffic it gets these days, but it used to get a fair amount in the days before the web was such a big deal. I can still remember how disappointed we were when after exploring every building on campus , there were no steam tunnels. Ahhh the good ole days. --Silurian
And what's so wrong with generic hardware? I would much rather have a machine that I could maintain and get parts for down the road. I don't think I should have to replace my entire motherboard just to fix a bad video chip.
How about warranties? Apple has a 1 year warranty on most of their products. Dell has a 3 year warranty on all of its machines. Apple requires you to box the system up and ship it off to be repaired, even for something as trivial as a bad floppy drive. Dell sends someone out to fix it for you for the first year, then overnight parts for the next two years. You can even upgrade to a 3 year onsite warranty.
As for their design, its simple, it works, it keeps getting better. The new dells open up almost as easy as a g3. Push one button on the front and the side panel pops offs. Flip a lever, and the entire card chassis assembly comes out for the instillation of cards. It couldn't be much easier.
If dell can find users who want to buy an Idell, more power to them, but I really don't care what my machine looks like as long as it works and is maintainable. I'm not completely sure that the imac meets either one of those requirements.
You keep paying for your "ingenius" products, I'll keep buying something that can be maintained and configured to meet my needs.