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Lee Revell wrote:

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> On 3/10/07, carmen <_@whats-your.name> wrote:

>> everything is made by Compal, Quanta, and ASUS. can you really

>> discriminate by western "brand" ?

>>

>> if Apple is selling a notebook for 99 and HP is selling the same

>> thing for 9, i'd get the HP - call me crazy

>

> How do you know it's the same thing?  Even if the specs are identical,

> I would expect Apple to have a much better QA process to catch things

> like singing capacitors that most PC buyers don't care about.

>

> Although, Apple's quality control has slipped a lot lately - the 2006

> Macbook I am typing this on had to be returned to the shop to fix the

> infamous "random shutdown disorder".

At least it didn't set your house on fire! (Google search for "Dell

laptop house fire" or something like that ... )
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David

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