[Physltest] [Phys-L] Re: Mac vs. PC (no flames please!)

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>]

At 15:11 -0500 1/25/05, James Frysinger wrote:

>  But if a display goes out on a Dell, one replaces just the
> display; it's not integral to the computer box.

How big a deal is this? I have 5 monitors in my house. The youngest
is four years old, the oldest 15. None has ever even burped, and all
are connected to computers that are on 24/7 (when not in use the
computers sleep and the monitor powers down, but otherwise, they are
always either on, or waiting to wake up). I would love for at least
some of them to die so I could justify replacing them with newer
flat-panel screens.

I did actually have a PowerBook screen fail once, but that was
because I dropped it.

My experience has been that the monitor is one of the most reliable
parts of any computer.

I do, however, have the remains of a Dell laptop my son had to buy
for school that failed about 3 months out of warranty, and which Dell
refused even to fix, claiming that it would cost more than the
computer was worth.

So much for price considerations.

Hugh
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