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> > I've had absolutely horrible experiences with two Mac
Minis :-) > > What was the problem? > Drive or logic board failures? After a year (and out of warranty natch) one had a superdrive go
out and would just start spontaneously rebooting. After several
years of just living with the reboots I finally tracked it down to a
subtle timing problem between two RAM sticks, which BTW were an
"officially matched pair". Pulled one out and it's been fine ever
since. The other had a catastrophic disk corruption while copying a
large file when the main volume was near full. After about a week
farting around with both TechTools and Disk Warrior (which cost me $200
since the built-in Apple recovery tools are crap) I was able to
recover most of it. Moving over to software, the 10.3 to 10.4 upgrade was not
pleasant, several apps broke (though in fairness I use a lot of
"unusual" things like emacs). Apple doesn't seem to be particularly shy about
breaking backward compatibility on major releases. The way iMail manages it's mail folders is silly and incompatible
with every other mail client on the planet. Try to import mail from another system. Your choices? Eudora and Netscape. Who the
@&^#*)$ uses those anymore? I haven't tried it lately but trying to get a Mac to use a
printer attached to a PC used to be a bloody nightmare involving
ghostscript and virtual printer drivers. And don't get me started on their programming environment and
APIs. Beauty is indeed skin deep. Jeff |