burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

I just retired my 2011 iPhone 4s in December. I got exactly four years out of it. Between us, my daughter and I got over five years out of my older iPhone 3Gs. Frankly, we only got rid of them because they were old and slow. Oh, and we HAD beat the hell out of them!

Average life of a Mac is five years. I got:

• Seven years out of my Mac SE
• Four years out of my Mac PowerBook 540
• Two years out of my PowerComputing PowerCenter 150 Mac Clone (built like a typical PC)
• Five years out of my Mac PowerBook G3 "Pismo"
• Five years out of my Mac PowerBook G4 - 17
• Four years out of my MacBook Pro 2008, which was still going strong when I turned it in to my company
• 15 years out of my PowerPC G4 tower
• Nine years out of my wife's PowerPC G5 tower
• Five years out of an iMac DV
• I'm typing this on a perfectly usable six-year-old Mini. It's on its second DVD drive and its second hard drive, and runs faster than it did when new. That maintenance? Did it myself with parts from Amazon.com and MacSales.com .

Macs last so long you have to open them up every couple of years or so and vacuum the dust bunnies from them. Once in a while, a conventional hard drive needs to be replaced, but that happens with any computer. We put new drives in the G5 twice, and in the G4 three times. I changed the drive in my MacBook Pro after three years, just to add space and speed.

Just last year, we retired a 1999 PowerMac G4 that drove a wide format printer in a lab for five years, before the company retired it in my hands. My wife and kids used it for another decade! It still works, but the OS is too old to use safely on the Internet. Actually, I have a spare for it that also works.

I've owned Macs since '84, along side of PCs running DOS 6 and Windows 3.11, 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, and soon to be 10. My PCs have lasted, on average, four years (NOT counting the four of them that caught fire in three to nine months, but those were rendering/RIPping images, non-stop, 24/7, which melts power supply connectors to motherboards!).

I've been even more impressed with the Apple technical support over the years, and the general lack of need for either Apple support, or corporate IT support, for Macs.

And it's not just Apple users who toot their horn for them... IBM has recently begun deploying Macs in a big way! They are deploying about 1900 Macs PER WEEK:

http://fortune.com/2015/10/16/apple-ibm-helpdesk/

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2998315/apple-mac/every-mac-we-buy-is-making-and-saving-ibm-money-ibm.html

Kobuk Loc: Roseville, CA

Just to let everyone know Nikon came through and sent
me a new battery cover overnight. I think after I sent them the link to my UHH post they gave it some more thought and decided to do the right thing. Don't know but I have been taken care of, Thanks Nikon should not have been so difficult but it came out ok in the end.

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

I'm glad you finally got some LOVE........
Going through life without love is no way to live......... :lol:
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burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Companies HATE to be dragged through the mud on social media. It really hurts their sales!

If you do it, though, you need to be completely factual, and back everything up with proper documentation.

It's unfortunate, but sometimes you can get results faster this way than any other.

Kobuk Loc: Roseville, CA

Is that not the truth :thumbup: