Mixture
Thanks for your response.
I own a number of macs and have never had any issues as serious as you describe, infact I've never had any issues requiring a service trip. And I push my macs very hard.... both in terms of exposing laptops to occasional accidental droppings and pushing the software/hardware of with strenuous exercises.
Our laptops are handled with care, have never been dropped and remain in a domestic environment - although sometimes taken out on business in a 'skin'. No detrimental treatment at all.
With the greatest respect, spending almost £5,000.00 on computers in two years only to see them 'crash and burn' is NOT a risk of computing life I expect to have to put up with.
KR
FOK
PS: My wife also purchased a LaCie drive for backing up data. That failed too and she lost everything. No compensation for all the data, time and effort in that respect either. Reference to the Web reveals that these issues are far from uncommon - in fact they are well known and complaints abound.