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Decisions decision...apple or no apple?!?
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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 353485" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>Justincredible, D3v1L80Y has it exactly right. </p><p></p><p>Remember, happy and satisfied people don't feel the need to post in forums as often as people with issues. So, when you look at a forum, in general you see a self selected subset of the Mac population who have problems they need help with. They probably form the majority of the posts, but they are a MINORITY of the total population. Just looking at the posts will skew your view of the reliabilty of Macs.</p><p></p><p>BTW, these forums are a bit of an exception to the above. If you check out the MacBook and MacBook Pro sub forums, you will find LOTS of "Wow! I *love* this thing" sort of posts. Spend some time checking them out over a few days - you will be pleasantly surprised. In addition to people with problems, people who experience that "Ah hah - wow!" moment when they realize just how good their new Mac really is also tend to post their amazement. The Windows world has conditioned most folks to expect computers to be difficult problem filled devices. When the new Mac owner, hoping against hope that all the Mac "it just works" hype is *really* true, realizes that it *is* really true, they tend to post about it in sheer amazement. Watch for it, you will see LOTS of that sort of post here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 353485, member: 17052"] Justincredible, D3v1L80Y has it exactly right. Remember, happy and satisfied people don't feel the need to post in forums as often as people with issues. So, when you look at a forum, in general you see a self selected subset of the Mac population who have problems they need help with. They probably form the majority of the posts, but they are a MINORITY of the total population. Just looking at the posts will skew your view of the reliabilty of Macs. BTW, these forums are a bit of an exception to the above. If you check out the MacBook and MacBook Pro sub forums, you will find LOTS of "Wow! I *love* this thing" sort of posts. Spend some time checking them out over a few days - you will be pleasantly surprised. In addition to people with problems, people who experience that "Ah hah - wow!" moment when they realize just how good their new Mac really is also tend to post their amazement. The Windows world has conditioned most folks to expect computers to be difficult problem filled devices. When the new Mac owner, hoping against hope that all the Mac "it just works" hype is *really* true, realizes that it *is* really true, they tend to post about it in sheer amazement. Watch for it, you will see LOTS of that sort of post here. [/QUOTE]
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