WHY PC's SUCK. (was: Re: [geeks] Ahh, the smell of Athlon's burning up

Don McClure donindigo2 at mac.com
Tue May 21 20:27:47 CDT 2002


on 5/21/02 7:22 PM, alex j avriette at avriettea at speakeasy.net wrote:

> my g3 runs. overclock it 50mhz to 400, it runs. take a powerbook g4/400,
> overclock it to 500, and it just runs. theyre rock solid. the only
> hardware failure ive ever had on a mac is the 7 year old power supply in
> my 660.
> 
> alex



I've got lots of Macs, maybe fifty or sixty, mostly out of thrift stores.
Well used. All ages from the original 128 on they all work. Amazing.

No such luck on DEC pmax's and VAX 4000.60's though. All five were DOA...

Don McClure
Bel Air, MD



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