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Why I like Apple, continued.
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 12:33:41 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote: On 12/31/20 10:17 AM, wrote: On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 07:10:00 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 12/30/20 11:57 PM, wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 13:29:42 -0500, Wayne B wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:11:12 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: Took a bit longer than usual, but I heard back from Apple with the definitive answer that it will be shipping me a replacement iPad. The analysis was that the charging port was indeed defective, and the on-off switch was also out of spec, but working. So my iPad will be going to the refurb factory and a new or refurb'ed unit will be shipped to me this week and with the holiday, probably arrive next week. My first Macbook was a refurb from Apple many years ago, and I couldn't tell it from brand-new, so whatever I get back will be fine, with a new machine warranty and eligible for AppleCare. If this were a Dell or HP unit, I'd still be on the phone with the tech guy reading off a script from Pakistan or India. === I've had very good results with HP equipment; rarely needing service of any kind. Dell, not so much. Dunno, I used to be against Dell but that was what the country club used and I got all the old ones they threw away every few years. I beat the snot out of them. Two lived outside for years and one laptop is actually on the bar out there. (Runs the slide show in the Bud Light sign) They ain't broke. Nor is the monitor over the fridge that was there for Irma. The hardware seems pretty solid. Your demands on the hardware seem pretty tame. A lot of my machines run 24/7 and the ones I am talking about are running in a pretty harsh environment. Neither are in environmentally controlled space and the one on the bar is actually living outside. I am not sure what worse use there could be. The machine itself does not know whether it is finding the cure for cancer, computing satellite maneuvers or just playing "Alice's Restaurant". I was referring to usage, not environment, as in large database sorting and searching, manipulating large, multi-layer graphics, video production, et cetera. That might affect speed but it doesn't change reliability much and that was what we were talking about. I do crunch video on this machine from time to time but it is not a priority. BTW if you are really doing that sort of thing SSDs are fast but you are giving up reliability. The MTBF on SSD cells is around 10k writes from what I read and in a big sort, or movie rendering, you do a lot of writes. You can eat 10k up pretty fast. Being the mean, some will fail sooner, some later but the later ones are insignificant, Usually once you lose a few, it is new drive time. |
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