jlille@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Brian Heil) (08/13/90)
I've been following the 'my 3000 is a piece of crap why can't Commodore do anything right' thread for some time and thought I'd share a little story about Macintoshes and quality control. But first... something completely different... an disclaimer... I know four machines does not a sample make but all the same our problems have been annoying... it's not just Commodore-Amiga that has a problem. A couple weeks ago we got 4 Mac IIci's and a bunch of SE/30's for our student computing lab. When installing the IIci's we had a few problems... One machine's hard drive refused to spin up... no problem, call it in and on to the next machine... which had memory problems. 50% so far. Third machine, hardware checked out, but I had to install the system software 4 times before it would even boot properly. 2 weeks later it still hiccups on startup every so often. Fourth machine has worked fine. That's 75% bad in my experience with Apple's $4000+ machines. I won't even mention my experience with Mutli-Finder...I'll just say :( My Amiga 1000 has been going strong since 1985 (yup that's right no Extra- Halfbright on my Ami). There's probably a moral to this story but I'm too tired to think of one. Brian Heil bheil@scout-po.biz.uiowa.edu // Computing Services Organization \X/ Amigargnugen... College of Business Administration What makes a computer University of Iowa an Amiga!
pab@po.cwru.edu (Pete Babic) (08/20/90)
The sound chip on a new Mac IIci in my office went bad in less then a week. In article <2095@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jlille@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Brian Heil) writes: > Third machine, > hardware checked out, but I had to install the system software 4 times before > it would even boot properly. 2 weeks later it still hiccups on startup every > so often. Had the same problem in two other Macs I know of on campus. I've had three CBM machines (C64, C128, Amiga 500) and have never had a problem with the hardware. Maybe I've been lucky, but I think Commodore hardware is at least as reliable as anyone else's hardware. ========================================= Pete Babic - pab@po.cwru.edu Integrated Library Systems Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio ----------------------------------------- Standard Disclaimers apply Cleveland - Home of the Rock Hall of Fame Go Tribe! =========================================