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Are Apple Products Badly Engineered?

| Published: September 18, 2009
There’s a lot of brouhaha about the failure rate of Xbox 360s. In the same week, I saw three different news stories citing three different failure rates for the 360 (54.2%, 23.7% and 27.3%, if you’re interested). And everyone gives them shit because they’re, y’know, Microsoft. Having spent the morning fixing a dying Macbook, I [...]
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Failing Now.

| Published: June 12, 2007
Our Macbook had been crashing frequently over the past week or so. It would hang randomly when doing minor things, like copying a new program into the Applications folder. Sometimes it would take the computer two or three minutes to get itself together. Other times, it wouldn’t get itself together at all and a hard [...]
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Hello, I’m a Mac.

| Published: May 1, 2007
David Mitchell and Robert Webb (PC and Mac in the UK adverts) were in Dublin promoting their new film, “Magicians”. After the screening, they were taking photos with people and signing autographs. So, naturally, I asked them to sign my Macbook.
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Happy Birthday Apple.com!

| Published: February 21, 2007
I’ve been pretty busy, so I missed this slightly, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still celebrate! Monday was the 20th birthday of Apple.com. The domain was registered on the 19th of February 1987 and was the 64th registered dot-com address. So happy birthday, guys!
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New Mac Ad – Security

| Published: February 6, 2007
Miaow. Coming barely a week after Bill Gates went off on one about Mac security? Saucer of milk for Steve Jobs.
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