[G4] G5 question

[John Niven]

Failure rates from LEM site:
G5/1.8 dual (June 2004), D+ (19%, logicboard, optical drive)

I think it's entirely right to be cautious about investing in unknown hardware. Apples have there fair share of problems. I think the perception of better reliability is due to the limited hardware options allowing better testing and integration with the s/w.

The biggest Apple specific investment required here is an OS install disk. You could buy a used Tiger retail disk pretty cheap these days.

John

--- On Fri, 11/7/08, Richard Klein <richspk at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Richard Klein <richspk at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [G4] G5 question
> To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 11:04 AM
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Harry Freeman
> <gifutiger at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I understand that if you are coming from the WINTEL
> world about the high
> > failure rate of the boxes that are made to run
> MicroJunk. However Mac's are
> > all made by Apple and have a much lower mortality.
> 
> Was that really called for?  In any case, I haven't
> experienced any
> higher failure rates with components made to work with
> Intel
> processors or Windows than with Macs.  Also, Apple designs
> the Macs,
> but I don't think they build them.  I know that Foxconn
> has made Mac
> motherboards in the past, and they also make x86
> motherboards that run
> Windows and other OSs.
> 
> -- 
> Rich
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