As someone who spends his working day looking after consumers who have bought macs - and who has been doing this for the last 10 years or more - I think my anecdotal evidence is pretty strong.
In my experience Macs, as peices of hardware, fail rarely. What does fail is the hard drive. I've replaced more HDs than I can remember - but mostly in the mid-range fruit coloured iMac G3s. The optical drives fail on some of the plastic G4 towers. And in the last 12 months I've replaced 2 PSUs in plastic G4s (why they cost so much is beyond me though, when a comparable PC one is a third of the price!)
What is noticeable is that all of the parts that regularly fail are not made by Apple.
Most of the calls I get are generally related to either softwre issues (mostly MS software by the way) or user issues.
In fact the call I am on now is to do with Powerpoint refusing to start up!
As other posters have said earlier. Macs go on and on.
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As someone who spends his working day looking after consumers who have bought macs - and who has been doing this for the last 10 years or more - I think my anecdotal evidence is pretty strong.
In my experience Macs, as peices of hardware, fail rarely. What does fail is the hard drive. I've replaced more HDs than I can remember - but mostly in the mid-range fruit coloured iMac G3s. The optical drives fail on some of the plastic G4 towers. And in the last 12 months I've replaced 2 PSUs in plastic G4s (why they cost so much is beyond me though, when a comparable PC one is a third of the price!)
What is noticeable is that all of the parts that regularly fail are not made by Apple.
Most of the calls I get are generally related to either softwre issues (mostly MS software by the way) or user issues.
In fact the call I am on now is to do with Powerpoint refusing to start up!
As other posters have said earlier. Macs go on and on.