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Originally Posted by JimJoe
I owned two powermacs... and macs break down too.. trust me..
Macs are over priced and expensive to upgrade...
If you want something other than windows.. I have a couple of dozen live cds that you can put in your dvd drive, boot from the cd drive, and risk nothing..
Of course, it will not be the Windows 7 or xp experience ( I WOULD own a mac if I had to own vista instead.).
but my final answer is.. as my momma always told me..
to each his own..
JJ
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JJ... you're right. Hardware is hardware and anything can fail on any computer, whether it's the hard drive, memory, display...you name it.
But from a "hassle factor", for me, the Mac is more hassle free. Mostly, because there isn't anything I can do to it... I can't tinker around with the OS as easily as I can with Windows.
As for support, I can't speak to Apple support, since I've never needed to call them for the MacBook Pro, iPhone or iPad...all three just work. I probably shouldn't have said that.....one of them will probably fail today
Finally, your advise on data security is spot on. When you send a computer back to the manufacturer [or whomever], you don't always know what you are giving them. It's very difficult to know if you've cleaned all your personal information from a hard drive. About the only way [that I know] is to reformat and "overwrite" everything on the hard drive.
Cheers....