For Homeslice: Mac people and PC people

[Papa_Complex]

Damn. I'm REALLY not looking forward to trying to track maleware through a BSD-based OS.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

What models are you using? For notebooks, we're exclusively Latitude. The most recent models are trivial to disassemble, and repair, due to some very well thought-out changes to the case design. We don't support XPS or Inspiron. In desktops we're primarily Optiplex, with a smattering of Precision.

Given our install base of somewhere around 2500 units, our down-time is remarkably low. Then again myself, and my closest co-workers, are part of an authorized service centre. If we need parts they're in-hand, generally in 24-48 hours.

To me, quality control is about avoiding DOA units. I can't remember the last time I had a Dell DOA. Don't get me started on quality control though. The things that I've seen, in the various companies in which I've worked or toured, piss me right off. I wrote the QA and product testing procedures for the first computer manufacturer in which I worked, and they tossed it all out within a month of my leaving them. I don't think that they lasted a year after that, though, before going bankrupt.



I think that they almost hit 40% (38, or somesuch), before dropping. In response to their success companies like HP dropped their pants on profits, and aggressively marketed through discount/big box chains. Dell responded in kind, where the big box stores are concerned, which to my mind was a poorly countenanced marketing misstep. They didn't gain a whole lot there.

We use latitudes and inspirons and a ton of different type desktops. They are all garbage.

[LeeNetworX]

[EpyonXero]

Most government PCs are garbage, trust me.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by zerioustt

lets face it most people buy laptops over a desktop. why? because most people want to cruise the web, buy stuff, watch movies, porn, and download music. i buy toshibas and they last about 4 or 5 years and i have never paid over 500 bucks for one, to me thats a deal mac cant offer.

truth, i havent had a desktop since iraq started. i usually shop the refurbished machines and go with a year or two old desktop replacement. pavilion zd8000 im on now is bombproof and fast as hell..well, as long as you dont put a battery in it. silly hp ran the keyboard electrical supply through the same spot as the battery so if its trying to charge your keyboard doesnt work

[Homeslice]

Figures the White House would use outdated HP's

[EpyonXero]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Figures the White House would use outdated HP's

They probably have the IT contract for the Whitehouse. HP runs the Navy/Marine network.

[Apoc]

[Avatard]

Originally Posted by Apoc

You'd think that all you guys smart enough to build your own PCs would know better than to buy all of your upgrades from Apple.

You buy the bare machine (and yes, it's overpriced...but it includes their boot ROM whatever-the-fuck that makes it inherently a "Mac", and effectively "buys" you their full OS and future upgrade capabilities).

Everything else you buy yourself, and add.

Stupid people will always overpay for shit. Apple's good at taking their money.

I don't buy all of their shit...but some of it is just fucking spot on.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Avatard

You'd think that all you guys smart enough to build your own PCs would know better than to buy all of your upgrades from Apple.

You buy the bare machine (and yes, it's overpriced...but it includes their boot ROM whatever-the-fuck that makes it inherently a "Mac", and effectively "buys" you their full OS and future upgrade capabilities).

Everything else you buy yourself, and add.

Stupid people will always overpay for shit. Apple's good at taking their money.

I don't buy all of their shit...but some of it is just fucking spot on.

Easy enough with hard drives, but I've had issues with memory compatibility.