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To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (69430)	9/30/2007 4:21:14 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

>>I understand your frustration with the Consumer Reports info you posted about Apple's hardware reliability vs. the competitors. That was certainly shocking news to me. I will hold out hope it's a wakeup call to Mr. Jobs & Company. The last thing Apple needs is to get the reputation Dell and Gateway have for using dirt cheap components to maximize profit at the expense of reliability.<< Roy - In the case of Apple, I don't think reliability problems would come from using the cheapest components. I think it would have more to do with pushing the envelope in designing some of the thinnest full-featured notebooks around. The manufacturing tolerances are incredibly tight on something like a MacBook. In any case, you can be sure that Apple's management would not tolerate continuing defect rates that were higher than industry averages. And certainly they wouldn't need Consumer Reports to point it out if they were experiencing such high defect rates. - Allen