PCMag readers rate Apple highly on Desktop and Notebooks
Going slightly off-topic, PCmag just did a survey on vendor's reliability and support. Apple came on top for both desktop and notebook categories.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2006497,00.asp
I bought the Macbook Pro and it arrived 2 weeks ago (week 32 build). So far, I am very satisfied with it (albeit being on a pretty hot side), and I had no need to call the tech support yet. So I'm wondering - what do people on this forum think about Apple's reliability and tech support?
I am aware about the quality issues Apple had with earlier builds of their notebooks, but it seemed like Apple managed to sort it out mostly as of now. I was going to wait for them to come out with Merom notebooks, but after seeing the benchmarks, I thought there was no compelling reason to wait on Merom any further anymore (which wasn't surprising, since current intel notebook CPUs (Yonah) are actually very good unlike Prescott).
So back to the question......how would YOU rate Apple's reliability and tech support?
P.S. I would suggest that you try and customize your notebook when you buy, to increase the chance of having the latest revision of the components. Do realize that I said "may"......
MacBook Pro 2.16GHz Mac OS X (10.4.7)
I purchased a decent priced Mac Pro from eBay and then upgraded the graphics card and RAM. I also upgraded the CPU's, but that isn't something most casual computer users want to get into. RAM and video card was a no brainer on the Mac Pro.
I also scoured the local classifieds and found a nice iMac 17" 2ghz C2D. I bought some extra ram, and put Snow Leopard on it. Real great machine, works perfectly fine and runs anything I need it to do. Was a great price.
Or you can buy yourself a new iMac, you won't be disappointed. Looks great, has an awesome display, and is about as clutter free as possible. You can also run Windows via bootcamp if you need be.
My friend has a macbook air, real cook machine, but it suffers in t he performance area to keep it light weight. However, it does EVERYTHING he wants it to do.
I also run an eMac for internet browsing, word processing, and email. You can get them almost for free.
Good luck,
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