[-0MEGA-];1056816 said:
I work with Mac's as well and they are not as reliable as people say, we have had at least 10 out of 60 laptops that have needed the battery replaced within 1-2 years because they stopped working. Several bad hard drives, bad CD drives, and then you have the faceplate recall.
Everything has its failure rates. I have 6,280 Macs in inventory right now, and probably just as many PCs. However, not a day goes by that a Gateway doesn't break down somewhere. At my old job I had to repair Gateways every day, and we had probably 3,000ish of them.
Sure, hard drives are hard drives and they fail, and CDroms are CDroms and they are all mechanical parts, but when you have like 300 NICs go bad in like a two week period, it goes to show you the quality control of the company.
I have Macs break on me sure, just like any other computer. If they didn't break down and worked perfect I wouldn't have a job at all.
My opinion is biased because I have thousands of machines I deal with every day.
A battery dieing can be as simple as the user doesn't know how to keep it charged, or they have too much crap running on their system and drain their batteries so hard core that it starts to lose its charge. If you let a battery sit too long with no charge the back up cell will deplete, and then you have a bad battery. Batteries are also no where near an exact technology.
I would never recommend anyone to buy a Gateway, but that is just my opinion. I would recommend HP business class over a Gateway every day, or an Asus, Lenovo, or even an Acer.
Gateway has been bought out too many times and had so many financial problems. I mean, when you try to buy a thousand slim line desktops from a company and they tell you they can have them to you in 6 months because they can't manufacture them fast enough at the moment kind of puts a bad taste in your mouth.
Also, where in the hell did I say that Macs don't fail? I love how you deciphered that from my three line opinion about Gateway products. I have nothing against the whole Mac VS PC VS OS X VS Windows VS Linux debates. I use what I want to use, not because someone tells me it is better and I apply it to what I do with every thing.
Out of over 6,200+ Macs though only really a small percentage of them actually break on hardware failure. most of the time it is the user who drops it or whatever and that is what breaks them.
The chasis recall was a pain in the butt, because I can't just send out 2,000 laptops to get the chassis replaced and then just hope Apple can get them back to me in less than a week. That I agree with you on.
Then again I could sit here and list a ton of recalls Gateway has done, and I can list tons of experiences where I even had Gateway engineers involved in my environment trying to figure out why their products don't work as advertised. However, that conservation doesn't really go well when people take it as a personal attack.
I don't care if you buy a Gateway, it is your money, but it is my opinion that they are piles of crap and that you shouldn't waste your money.
