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Hi,
my experience with Macs sucks.
This year after many yeaars using Dos / Win based computers I decided to make the switch to mac. I bought a 13" Macbook Pro with 8 gigs of ram and a 750 gig hard drive. I was seduced by claims of unmatched stability and ease of use. I really really wanted to love this Mac. Unfortunately my experience with it has been the opposite of what I believed it would be.
Mountain Lion has been an unstable OS. I have had more crashes in a month than I have had in 5 years of windows. The machine has locked up totally, crashed apps randomly. The machine has been checked by a "Genius" who proclaimed it "fine" and who cannot explain its behaviour. A friend who bough the same machine as me has had it back 3 times to Apple for the same issues. Like me, he was given no explanation. I have reformatted and reinstalled Mountain Lion 2 times without improvement.
My latest nightmare is the "Upgrade" of ITunes just released which refuses to import any new music.
My experience is not unique - a search finds plenty of others who have had similar experiences. Even the latest ITunes issue I have is not unique to me.
I have read the manuals/help etc, but think I may salvage my investment by dumping OSX and installing windows. That way I will only lose the $600 I paid over and above what a similar specced Windows machine would have cost....
I bought a chinese telescope mount once....never again. I bought Apple once....never again.
Thank you for reading my rant....I feel soooo much better having got it off my chest...
cheers
Gary
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