I think people are way too picky. How many highly complicated machines such are computers, cars, etc worth perfectly for their entire lifespan without ever needing to perform any maintenance? MAC's aren't perfect either, otherwise there wouldn't be hundreds of support message boards.
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Originally Posted by TheBrit
The way I see it is that my mac has 100% uptime. Fine, I paid a hell of a lot for it, but it's there whenever I need it. Say a PC goes down for a few hours, I think that most people would be happier paying $20 or so instead of having that downtime and extra workload.
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How often does a PC crash mean its unusable for a few hours? It's the classic Mac users attempt to over-exaggerate how perfect their machines are and toally play up on the fact that PCs crash, etc. Besides, how often does a PC crash? Using XP, my work computer crashes maybe twice a month (I always run at least 4 apps so I don't have to re-open it when I come back to it) and my home PC crashes about once a week. When it does crash, it's a 60 second inconvenience, it's hardly the end of the world that Mac users like to portray it as. Looking at the situation honsestly, restarting the computer once a day and spending an hour or two a month on maintenance (usually, you can just set it to go automatically) will take less than 1% of your precious time, so is spending $500-$1000 more worth 1%?