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A foolish thought.
mjolnar@... 7th May 2009
I sold cars for around 20 years. People buy a Toyota or Honda because they think they will last forever. Because it will last (forever) they take very good care of it. When it comes to Ford or Chevy, the thought pattern is that they won't last, therefor why take care of it.

My son is in education and research, therefor he has a Mac Pro. When he 1st started college, we got him an older low mile Chevy Nova, the car lasted 2 years. He asked me to help him find another car. I got him a Chevy Prizm, 11,000 on it. He blew the engine in it within 3 years.

He wanted to get a different car, I told him it didn't matter what he got because it wouldn't last. He claimed if he had bought a Toyota that would never have happened. I had to explain to him that both of his cars had been Toyota Corollas. He didn't change oil or check anything out on it.

The moral is, he bought an import engine for that 99 Prizm, learned how to take care of it. It is now 10 years old, with over a 100,000 miles on the engine and no problems.

Macs last longer because people take care of their fine machine. If people would take care of their PC it would last as long.
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