JHoagland opened this issue on Feb 18, 2007 · 126 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Tue, 27 February 2007 at 3:52 PM
I've had very few repair costs on any of my PC's. The vast majority of my expenses have gone for upgrades over the years. I've had a couple of HD crashes -- but that's inherent in the nature of HD's. That's why the cardinal rule of computing is: back it up.........
I did lose a laptop once due to a fried motherboard. It was a Compaq -- and the motherboard wasn't worth replacing for the $600 that Compaq wanted for a new one. Especially not for a ~2.5-year-old laptop. So I trashed the laptop.
But I've never had a single problem like that with a desktop PC. And I've owned + worked with a huge number of PC's over the years.
At the same time -- I've known people who had trouble with their Macs.
I think that it has something to do with us being imperfect creatures -- and therefore we produce imperfect devices.
I've yet to find the perfect computer -- or car -- or television set.