A delayed response I got last week to my reply to a comment on a previous post:


Thanks for your reply Gabriel.

Whilst you speak from your personal experience, which is tainted with emotion.
I do honestly empathize, but a handful of friends break downs doesn't constitute a valid comparative analysis.

In the mass manufacture of any commoditized product, you'll always have some failures as this is part of human engineering endeavor and design evolution.
Sure, sometimes a glitch in one of the automated robotic assemblies needs recalibration. But alas a batch escaped QControls, because tests showed no fault and you now do.

What your short sightedness misses people whose station of office is 24/7 fixing other people problems, sees! Had your experience been one who's had to repair these notebooks or systems for a LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE.
My comments would have been different, and I would have sought to know more of it.

Your ignorant comments with regards to batteries be it motherboard or power are deemed consumables, in that of course they have a limited life span [ DOH!].
Name me a manufacturer who doesn’t have this as an issue?
Scientists and corporations spend millions trying to make them last longer, and the man who finds the perfect battery will be rich beyond his wildest dreams.

As for hard disks this also holds the same, it was always assumed that this will not last forever.
I mean a disk platen spinning at 7200 – 15,000 Rpm for 5-8 years is goner wear a bearing or two.
But I know of many hard disks lasting longer than this, but the people who owned them are not guys like you. Unlike the average public, they cool their drives, as this is one MAJOR factor affecting them [ its called friction ]. Only today are they starting to address this in design, but in the corporate sector and government they have been doing this for 20 years.

If your article had cast new and interesting light on this trend, coupled with the fact that you some how thought it negligent that for so long scientist and engineers failed us and colluded with manufacture to sell us dodgy goods, you might have come closer to a story.

I have more than 25 years experience in Engineering & Service business from Broadcast systems, Recording Studio's to I.T & Computers.
I see and have experienced a much LARGER SAMPLE than you purport.
END OF STORY!

I don't use a laptop, because I have very little use for them. This doesn't mean I don't have stock of them or access for that matter. There are other forms of personal information managers out there, or have you forgotten?

Most of the computers I personally run are from my humble XEON 3.6 Ghz Dual CPU Rack Mount [ 4Gb Ram, 1Terabyte HDD ], to my more grunty QUAD CORE XEON Racks which take 32 Gb of RAM and don't ask about my RAID [ these form the hub of my recording studio ].

From the above I think it should be obvious and deducible that Laptops don't hold enough sway for me. Laptop's are but only diagnostic tools for me, not for sitting in some Cafe sipping Latte trying to impress my importance on the unwary public via a hotspot.
They are but tools, everyone uses them to facilitate the work, the mode finds expression in your personal endevours.

Back to your Site:-

Alas, yours is of spectacle and sensationalism, for if it were not, you'd hardly draw anyone to your pages. There's the RUB, or as Marshall McLuhan said the "Medium is the Message", or in your case " Medium is the Massage".
Keep rubbing that in people’s faces, eventually some people will believe it truth.

The conveyance of truth or real perspective is lost in the pursuit of the reaction and gaining momentum, for its sake only. Should you have journalistic intentions you might be well served by seeing and reading his book. Though it was before your time, he saw the effect of the electronic media long before you knew it existed.

Please don't take it the wrong way, this is not personal. It’s just so tiresome that some in this day and age of blogs and information overload offer nothing of any personal empowerment through truth or knowledge. Just information bordering on the non-sensicle, and saying things for no other reason than the reaction it causes. [YAWN!].

I think you can do better than that Gabriel, in fact you deserve better than that.
If you should care about something so much, then why not try to differentiate yourself from the crowd. Offer the truth, research the facts, and then empower your readership, they will be transformed and hold you in high esteem as the conduit for that event.

If you take issue with the manufacturer over some design flaw, all the power to you brother. We've been doing this for years!
You should research your facts, and then post them.
But for goodness sakes get yourself a bigger sample to substantiate your claims.
If you did so, you would be providing the public a service, and I've got nothing but respect for those who do.

I have no personal affiliation with any manufacturer, but in the servicing business we are preferred by many of them as the preferred service provider.
But in saying this we represent their competition too, it’s completely democratic.
And my customers know we fight them tooth and nail to get them their rightful compensation should we find fault with any products or workmanship.
Yet we are still respected by them.
In my other business pursuits I care not for money, but the integrity of the content and how it affects the buying public. So should you!

In the beginning there was the WORD, and the word was made flesh.
How powerful do feel the word could be if it were filled with truth?
How much more powerful a transformative experience for all concerned if you were to seek it for yourself, so you could share with those that seek it?

Maybe you should apply this……….who knows,
success may follow you should you wish to take the lead.

Hope you have a wonderful time transforming your site, peace brother!
Regards,


Jahmeister


I'm not really sure what he was on about in the second half.

I thought of talking about my keyboard and Frigid Girl's being recommended a maximum usage time of 8 hours (Once is happenstance...), but figured there'd be no point.