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Yeah, kind of a strange title for a thread, but hopefully I'll make some sense of it.
So I have become fully immersed into the Apple eco-system.
I've got iPods, iPhones, iPad and now my iMac.
So let me start by saying I LOVE them all. In fact, the sooner I could go and get a Macbook Pro and replace all of our home pc's the better.
But that also got me thinking about something. As I read articles on other websites (not pc or apple specific, just tech web sites) you read all sorts of articles from those both for and against Apple products.
You begin reading articles about hardware failures repeatedly (iMac screen issues, and Macbook Pro battery issues, etc) and these don't seem to be isolated issues, but rather, more widespread than you'd hope for.
In any case, and to get back to the Thread Title a bit, is my bubble going to burst? Is all my Apple gear going to start revealing their flaws and hardware malfunctions?
And before anyone says it, yes I know it's possible that ANY piece of equipment from ANY manufacturer can fail, so that's not what I'm talking about.
I guess I'm asking a very subjective question that maybe doesn't even have an answer.
But I'm just hoping that the BUBBLE doesn't pop. So far I'm really enamored with Apple products and the user experience has been incredible. SO FAR.
I guess I'm just hoping that my experience continues to be stellar.
I want to be able to have this iMac working flawlessly 4 to 5 years from now. I would like my other pieces of hardware to working the way they are supposed to.
Am I making sense here?
I've been so crushed by just about every other pc purchase in my past, almost to the point of KNOWING that the pc or laptop I was buying wasn't going to last that long, that I was REALLY HOPING for all of that to change.
So has anyone else found themselves in this position? Completely on cloud 9 with Apple products only to have your bubble burst by hardware failures beginning to crop up?
Thanks.
So I have become fully immersed into the Apple eco-system.
I've got iPods, iPhones, iPad and now my iMac.
So let me start by saying I LOVE them all. In fact, the sooner I could go and get a Macbook Pro and replace all of our home pc's the better.
But that also got me thinking about something. As I read articles on other websites (not pc or apple specific, just tech web sites) you read all sorts of articles from those both for and against Apple products.
You begin reading articles about hardware failures repeatedly (iMac screen issues, and Macbook Pro battery issues, etc) and these don't seem to be isolated issues, but rather, more widespread than you'd hope for.
In any case, and to get back to the Thread Title a bit, is my bubble going to burst? Is all my Apple gear going to start revealing their flaws and hardware malfunctions?
And before anyone says it, yes I know it's possible that ANY piece of equipment from ANY manufacturer can fail, so that's not what I'm talking about.
I guess I'm asking a very subjective question that maybe doesn't even have an answer.
But I'm just hoping that the BUBBLE doesn't pop. So far I'm really enamored with Apple products and the user experience has been incredible. SO FAR.
I guess I'm just hoping that my experience continues to be stellar.
I want to be able to have this iMac working flawlessly 4 to 5 years from now. I would like my other pieces of hardware to working the way they are supposed to.
Am I making sense here?
I've been so crushed by just about every other pc purchase in my past, almost to the point of KNOWING that the pc or laptop I was buying wasn't going to last that long, that I was REALLY HOPING for all of that to change.
So has anyone else found themselves in this position? Completely on cloud 9 with Apple products only to have your bubble burst by hardware failures beginning to crop up?
Thanks.