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From: jlille@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Brian Heil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A3000's Mac IIci's and quality control
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Date: 13 Aug 90 15:13:48 GMT
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   I've been following the 'my 3000 is a piece of crap why can't Commodore do
anything right' thread for some time and thought I'd share a little story 
about Macintoshes and quality control.  

   But first... something completely different... an disclaimer...
I know four machines does not a sample make but all the same our problems have 
been annoying... it's not just Commodore-Amiga that has a problem.

A couple weeks ago we got 4 Mac IIci's and a bunch of SE/30's for our student
computing lab.  When installing the IIci's we had a few problems... One 
machine's hard drive refused to spin up... no problem, call it in and on to the
next machine... which had memory problems.  50% so far.  Third machine, 
hardware checked out, but I had to install the system software 4 times before
it would even boot properly.  2 weeks later it still hiccups on startup every
so often.  Fourth machine has worked fine.  That's 75% bad in my experience
with Apple's $4000+ machines.  I won't even mention my experience with 
Mutli-Finder...I'll just say :(

   My Amiga 1000 has been going strong since 1985 (yup that's right no Extra-
Halfbright on my Ami).  There's probably a moral to this story but I'm too 
tired to think of one.

Brian Heil		bheil@scout-po.biz.uiowa.edu	     //
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