That's really not a problem Robin. You take it in and they fix it. It may not be same day, but where else offers that service anyway - even for boring little beige boxes?
To tell you the truth, all my Macs at work have gone back to the leasing company after three years for new ones, and none have ever really failed in hardware. On occasion you might format one and go again after some software corruption - but a machine is just a machine. They're all fallible.
What "Win simulator" Fred? It's real Windows Vista-64 Ultimate I'm running - installed from my own install DVD. It isn't "simulated" - it's just running at the same time. Virtualisation is a brilliant way to run practically as many OS's as you like - and I also run Win7 Pro on my box - alongside Ubuntu and Mint Linux. I can boot into any of these OS's and run them natively if I like - but there's just no need. CCDstack runs at top speed on my machine - and probably just as fast as it does on your own. With 16Gb on board mine fair flies.
The hardware is the all Intel i7 too - but I do concede one point to you - weird little drivers for weird little devices and specialist I/O. At work we employ lowly PC's to run these when required, yes.
, but I wouldn't call these "every day" requirements.
Anyway - we digress. This thread is about Apple's performance in knocking Bill off the top of the pile.
