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Apple: a love/hate relationship

July 23, 2007 › Sandy McMurray | comment

My friend (and my pastor) Darryl Dash comments on his relationship with Apple Inc.

I hate Apple... my MacBook Pro's hard drive has failed and it's less than a year old. It's in for repair and it won't be back until the week is almost over.

I love Apple... thanks to SuperDuper! I have an up-to-date mirror of the failed drive on an external disk. I just plugged it into Charlene's iMac, booted from the external drive, and I've been working as if it's my computer all day.

Can't figure out what to think about this crazy company.

Apple quality control seems to have slipped over the past few years. Maybe Steve Jobs needs more hours in the day to run a computer company, a music company, a phone company, a chain of retail stores and a movie studio?

Darryl's previous portable, an iBook, was one of the models affected by the dreaded logic board failure problem. I hope he has a better time with this MacBook Pro after this problem gets cleared up.

Mac users everywhere should take a tip from Darryl and get SuperDuper! backup software.

Back up your important data. Do it now before it's too late!

July 23, 2007 › Sandy McMurray | comment on this item