I have a Gateway laptop that I use for work... I was getting a hairline crack in one of the hinges... I called monday morning at 9:00 AM, DHL delivered a box to me for shipping at 2:20 PM the same day. DHL picked it back up at 4:00 PM on the same day. At about 4:00 AM, I saw it sign on to one of my messenger programs (they had just finsihed replacing the screen) I got it back at 1:40 PM the following day! And that was just some dumb old PC company. Good customer service can be found all over... Maybe I'm just bitter because I have been waiting 3 weeks for a response on a failed itunes download, but I think Apple's service sucks!
Learn to set up a PC... then you won't have those problems... I have built 2200 + XP systems for the city government users where I work. I have nobody that complains of slow systems (many are Mac users at home) maybe I just know what I'm doing.
To say it is rare to see an XP system running quickly, you're just silly.
Being someone who has spent hundreds if not thousands of hours using both Windows and Macintosh systems, I find it funny that most of the die hard Mac users I know are some of the most computer illiterate people I have ever met... Which helps me understand why they need to buy a 3000 dollar lava lamp that locks them in to only use hardware and software that apple approves of. Some main things to keep in mind here would be...
A.) I can let a 6 year old install software on a Windows system... But I have to train someone who has 20 years of computer experience on how to find their files on a Mac.
B.) A Mac system that runs comparable to my desktop system (which is only a 2.2 AMD with 2 gigs of RAM) that I spent about 1100 dollars building would cost in the neighborhood of 3000 dollars.
C.) Asking a virus writer to take more time away from their freshman biology homework to code worms and viruses for a system only utilized by an estimated 16% of computer owners seems just silly. It seems there main intent is to affect users... They sure get a bunch more going the Windows route.
Not that Macs do not have their benefits... They sure are pretty! But hey, shame on a company like Microsoft for trying to make their OS support hardware and software people might want to use. I hope for a day when Bill Gates and Steve Jobs get to make all my software/hardware decisions for me! As long as my system boots quickly, I don't care what it does when it comes on... Brilliant!
Wow, could you be any more typical? Bad decisions are bad decisions... It does not matter who made them first, but you got your shots in at the US so I'm sure you'll have a better day now.
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I have a Gateway laptop that I use for work... I was getting a hairline crack in one of the hinges... I called monday morning at 9:00 AM, DHL delivered a box to me for shipping at 2:20 PM the same day. DHL picked it back up at 4:00 PM on the same day. At about 4:00 AM, I saw it sign on to one of my messenger programs (they had just finsihed replacing the screen) I got it back at 1:40 PM the following day! And that was just some dumb old PC company. Good customer service can be found all over... Maybe I'm just bitter because I have been waiting 3 weeks for a response on a failed itunes download, but I think Apple's service sucks!
Could that not be a problem specific to your PC? Mine works fine.
Learn to set up a PC... then you won't have those problems... I have built 2200 + XP systems for the city government users where I work. I have nobody that complains of slow systems (many are Mac users at home) maybe I just know what I'm doing.
To say it is rare to see an XP system running quickly, you're just silly.
Being someone who has spent hundreds if not thousands of hours using both Windows and Macintosh systems, I find it funny that most of the die hard Mac users I know are some of the most computer illiterate people I have ever met... Which helps me understand why they need to buy a 3000 dollar lava lamp that locks them in to only use hardware and software that apple approves of. Some main things to keep in mind here would be...
A.) I can let a 6 year old install software on a Windows system... But I have to train someone who has 20 years of computer experience on how to find their files on a Mac.
B.) A Mac system that runs comparable to my desktop system (which is only a 2.2 AMD with 2 gigs of RAM) that I spent about 1100 dollars building would cost in the neighborhood of 3000 dollars.
C.) Asking a virus writer to take more time away from their freshman biology homework to code worms and viruses for a system only utilized by an estimated 16% of computer owners seems just silly. It seems there main intent is to affect users... They sure get a bunch more going the Windows route.
Not that Macs do not have their benefits... They sure are pretty! But hey, shame on a company like Microsoft for trying to make their OS support hardware and software people might want to use. I hope for a day when Bill Gates and Steve Jobs get to make all my software/hardware decisions for me! As long as my system boots quickly, I don't care what it does when it comes on... Brilliant!
Yay choice!
Wow, could you be any more typical? Bad decisions are bad decisions... It does not matter who made them first, but you got your shots in at the US so I'm sure you'll have a better day now.
It figures somebody who would make such inane comments would be named "cannuck"
I could respond by saying Canada is full of fat girls with bad accents, but that would just be low class.
You are a child, and should be banned from any further public speaking
(btw, I love Canadian girls... Just proving a point)