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Originally posted by Nathans_Dad
I don't think the issue is building your own system, the issue is the OS, which is Microsoft. Now, perhaps if you want to run a PC with Linux it would work great, but I'm not smart enough to figure out how to make Linux work with all my software that is written for Windows.
My father-in-law bought a Dell PC and has had the same problems I did. Perhaps the issue isn't PC vs Mac, more like Windows vs Mac OS X.
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I don't buy that. Several large (very large) hosting companies run Windows 2000 or Windows 2003. Check out NetCraft.com. I realize it's a different environment, but if the issue really was that Windows just crashes randomly and breaks itself for no reason, wouldn't that happen on these web servers also? Running IIS, Exchange, MySQL (or MS-SQL), for months on end with heavy loads...
I'm leaning more towards crappy componets and users that cause *most* problems with Windows. And, yes, I consider run of the mill Dell stuff to be crap. There is much, much better out there.
Also, IMO, Alienware matches Apple for build quality.