Yep, if you count iPads, they now make more computers than any other single company. Very odd to be on the other side I'm sure. On Nov 20, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Bill O'Connell wrote: > So MAC is now the biggest computer maker in the whorl????? And with a great > spell checker to boot :-> > > -----Original Message----- > From: nikonf4-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:nikonf4-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Eric Welch > Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 12:18 PM > To: nikonf4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [nikonf4] Re: Mac Trouble > > Same hardware as go into PCs. It would be naive to think they don't have > problems. Some times its PCs sometimes Macs. This crusade against the > biggest computer maker in the whorl is oddly funny. > > Eric > Sent from my iPad > > On Nov 20, 2010, at 7:54 AM, Mark Stein <mjstein63@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Wow, I must still be asleep and dreaming... a Mac with a problem? Then > again, I think most the technology problems people have posted about lately > are Mac. >> >> >> >> >> At 08:25 PM 11/19/2010 -0800, you wrote: >>> I was using my Macbook 13" laptop tonight when suddenly it froze in > Safari and the Force Quit didn't work. Neither did anything else. I held the > power button down, and it shut off. >>> >>> Now when I try to turn it on, it starts to boot, chimes, and the little > thermometer comes up. It's the one that shows when you have a long startup > sequence to go through. Then the whole thing powers off instead of booting. > If I hold down the power button until the long tone sounds, the same thing > happens. I inserted my OS disk hoping to do a restore, and it just ate that; > it won't eject no matter what, and there's no paper clip hole. >>> >>> Power on, progress thermometer moves to about 5% then restarts a couple > of times, then it powers off. I powered up and connected my firewire backup > HD but it's no help. >>> >>> This Macbook has been flawless since 12/06, and I just installed the > latest big OS and Safari updates last night. It worked perfectly all day, > however. >>> >>> Any ideas, gang? >>> >>> Don't make me go to the Apple Store on Saturday! >>> >> >> >> >> > > Eric We used to think that an hundred million monkeys at an hundred million keyboards eventually could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.