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From: hutches@beowulf.ucsd.edu (David J. Hutches)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re:   Apple's Horrible Product Quality
Summary: No, not really horrible at all.
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Date: 4 Jun 89 18:26:41 GMT
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In article <3627@tank.uchicago.edu> ra_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>Same here: have had my Mac for over 1.5 years and not one problem.  Very
>satisfied.
>
>And I'd still buy a Mac anyway, even if they were having some QC problems.  A
>longer warranty (say, 6 months) would be nice, though.  But then again, I never
>had to use mine.

I've had my Mac for something like 3.5 years, have moved it all over the
place (three different states), and use it at least 4-5 hours a day.
Admittedly, I've had two problems with it, a broken trace and a dead
potentiometer.  But both of these things happened long after any
reasonable :-) warranty would have expired.  Considering the fact that
it's been banged around from one side of the country to the other *and*
that it's been taken apart by me to install various enhancements, I
think it's held up remarkably well.  Given the chance, the need, and the
financial wherewithal, I would buy a Mac over an IBM (or clone) any day.

--david
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