Apple builds crap computers designed to fail after just a couple of years
"a perfectly good computer for email, web and document editing, and for those functions alone it should be good for another 10 years at least", really ?
If you think an iMac can last that long, your are day dreaming. Apple has a long history of building crap computers that are designed to fail after just a couple of years.
Only yesterday, The Register reported on the latest Applegate : like a repeat of the 2007 scandal, newer MacBook Pros built in 2009 and later exhibit a badly soldered discrete graphics card that often fails shortly after the end of the warranty. And Apple won't make any effort to keep you happy, unless you start a class action against them.
So if you really need an Apple computer for any reason, beside the $3'000 that costs a top-of-the-range MacBook Pro, you better put aside 10s of thousands for your future legal costs against the crap company.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
