Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]How annoying Frank. I will be no consolation for you when I write that I have had very few problems with my computers. My personal computer has been Apple since the 80s. I have had quite a few now and nary a problem. I bought an iPad in Washington DC in April 2010 (before they were available in the UK) and I still use it daily and the battery life is still astounding (though I take great care with proper discharge and charge discipline). I decided against Microsoft stuff back in the 80s when I found their software technically weak (about 50x slower than the competing product I used). Mind you their marketing and legal depts were well superior to that now defunct competition... My only Windows experience has been using it for work where we thankfully always had a sizeable IT department to fix all the problems. I haven't switched on my PC since 2009, the last time I needed it for a client. I have just ordered a dedicated music/video streaming computer that is Windows based so I wait with trepidation! cheers, Frank D. On 1 Mar, 2012, at 15:23, Frank Filippone wrote: > I have had about a dozen Dell computers, all running Windoze. They all ran > for at least 4 years without incident. No hardware failures. They were > all > bought as refurbished. They were replaced because they finally were too > old > technology to accept new OS or new HW that I needed to implement. > > > > I have had 2 monitors for my computer in the past 20 years. The last > replacement was a CRT. It was replaced because I wanted more room on my > desktop, not because it was not working. Current monitor is a Samsung > 204B. > Old technology when I bought it about 5 years ago. Still works just fine. > > > > These were top quality manufacturers, selling top quality models. ( the > operative word is quality, not cost nor functionality) > > > > Only recently did my wife want other than a Toshiba Laptop computer ( we > had > 4 or 5 over the years). All lasted about 6-18 months before they were > having problems. Batteries reoutiney needed replacement in about 5 months. > Replaced 4 HDD. No more Laptops, no more Toshiba here. > > > > I bought an IPad for my wife just before Christmas 2011. It is > intermittently dead. After 4 trips to the genius bar, she is about to > return it for a refurbished and presumably working model. It operated > properly for 3 months. She has to call Apple, arrange an empty box, return > it, wait a week or so, then get a replacement. The Genius Bar does nothing > to help with the replacement, even after 4 useless visits there. It was > bought new from Apple directly. Any talk about getting a Mac was > completely crushed by her experience with the IPad. I consider the > customer service level to be zero on this transaction. > > > > She has a friend that bought her IPad about a month ago and has had the > same > problem. Same result.. 4 trips.. no luck.. Go get it replaced on your own. > > > > She bought a Kindle for herself, apparently more than a year ago. Dead > battery this past week. Out of warranty. We faced with a battery > replacement by Amazon for $59, a DIY battery replacement for $30 (third > party), of buy a new one for a whole lot more. > > > > I am unimpressed with the quality of these products. I consider them like > appliances, they should last a good long time before requiring service. > > > > Yes, I was in the Electronics business.. I understand the issues with > infant > mortality, battery life expectancy, and repair centers. > > > > Frank Filippone > > Red735i at earthlink.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information