P_C or Laptop

itguy08 wrote:

cdevidal wrote:

The useful life of my desktops has been around 10 years. The useful life of my laptops has been 2-3. I've got one limping along on my desk that has at least 15 physical problems that was built about the same year as the desktop on the floor which only has a USB port issue. As long as I keep the laptop in the same place it should be OK, which of course negates the advantage of a laptop. I had to buy many small components (USB sound card, USB network card) to work around the hardware failures of the laptop. It's useful, but not for much longer.

Buy a better laptop then. Still rocking a 2008 Macbook Pro, the firs unibody model.

Yeah, about my Macbook. Early 2009 13". Crack down the LCD. Also has a crack in the base plastic (which does not make it unusable, only cosmetic.) It was a gift to me in that condition because they know I like to make old hardware tick. I have to connect it to an external monitor to use it, because replacing the screen is just too darned expensive, which was one of the points I made here.

And it was likely cracked in the first place because of one of these six reasons.

You're going to have a hard time convincing me Macs are indestructible, because I've seen too many of them fail. I used to work (many moons ago) at AOL tech support for Macs. (OSes 7 and 8, if that tells you anything.) In the interim time I've seen friends who must use an external mouse because their trackpad failed and replacing the pad costs too much, which is why I said what I did.

I've even gone to using Toughbooks, which have the lowest failure rate in the industry, when I purchase laptops for friends and family, and even those have failed me. I'm going to visit my mom and will work on her Toughbook. Had a failed hard drive and will continue to having a failing screen because replacing laptop parts is more expensive.

Face it, laptops have a higher cost of ownership for at least six reasons. (Are you getting the theme here?) :B