OT: MacBook randomly shuts down..

[Jeff Reynolds]

Tiemo,

Dont think so. I have both a line conditioner and a UPS on the power.  
I have gobs of electronic equipment in the office and the dells have  
all kept dying. its also been over two different houses on each on  
the other coast!  If dell is that susceptible to power fluctuations  
then they are really using bad power supplies. we have had other pcs  
in the house w/o UPSs that have not died like this. If it is power  
problems then Dell i having a lot of dead computers as mine got much  
more power filtering than the average bear.

I went with dell since some friends in businesses that were buying a  
lot of pcs and were happy with dells. first i thought was a freak  
thing as they could not diagnose it and wanted a couple of hundred  
bucks to figure out what was wrong (out of warrantee), second was a  
shot motherboard. Again i was really stupid to go around a third  
time, but figured from what i had heard from friends that quality  
fluctuated a lot and dell was on an upswing...

I must say my mac 5300c had some potential issue with it and apple  
had a free repair. called in and next day shipping box was on the  
front door and the delivery guy took it away right then and it was  
back in two days! At first i thought they had replaced the machine,  
but it was my machine, they swapped the mother board (housing screws  
were used so they opened the case). dont know how they got that  
turnaround--i was in the bay area at the time so not far to go to the  
mother ship, but it was amazing.

cheers,

jeff



On Jan 7, 2008, at 1:00 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com  
wrote:

> Couldn't this strange experience be because of voltage  
> fluctuations? (don't
> know the right english expression :) I know, that these (often small)
> fluctuations can pain hardware parts. I for myself never had any Dell
> breakdowns for years, since I switched to Dell. I would buy always  
> again
> Dell (without extended warrenty)
> Tiemo