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To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (69422)	9/29/2007 6:42:55 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213182

I really doubt Consumer Reports... In my experience... everybody's individual case is an anecdote. you had a good experience (although you turn a blind eye to the defective battery and don't include it in your assessment of Apple's products, even though it is an important part of their products); i have had a bad experience (actually many). big deal. the idea behind a large-scale survey of the kind done by CR is to cut through the anecdotes and find statistically significant differences in product reliability. CR shows Apple as being less reliable than Lenovo. do you really think your handful of anecdotes is more meaningful than 75,000 handfuls of anecdotes? Apple reminds me of a religion, and not in a good way.

To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (69422)	9/29/2007 9:26:30 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 213182

The reason Apple gets better results in polls is more about "the cult" is better and more dedicated to responding and praising their own than anyone else. Cult 101 My Macbook isn't better or worse than any of my Dells, Compaq or my self built machines. The Mac OS is nice, but far from overwhelming, Vista has flaws, but far from overwhelming.

To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (69422)	10/1/2007 5:05:03 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

Consumer Reports Doesn't matter if Consumer Reports is right or wrong. What matters is the perception of consumers. As a person who would never own a Mercedes even if I could afford one but a person who thinks Camrys are dandy... and a person who prefers Macs over PCs (I own both)... I have to say that my perception of Apple's product quality has gone down. I expected it to go down. It's a difficult thing to maintain when your sales and product mix complexity goes up. The main thing is for stock owners it's definitely something I keep an eye on. Can Apple arrest that perception?