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Originally Posted by jakeonguitar
I have one of the original personal (i.e., not for business use) Macs. You know, the one that looks like a droid from the Jawa transport in Star Wars. (Rectangular prism like)
Never failed, no problems, et cetera. So, I have to disagree. With Macs, it's more the user than the computer that fails. Same with Linux.
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That's somewhat of a religious stance there.
I had one of the last of the first generation iMacs and the damn thing didn't have a fan in it and kept overheating until it crashed. I believe one of the unspoken reasons that Macs switched to Intel from the PowerPC chips is that the damn things ran so hot. Thankfully, I bought a Mac Mini that let me transfer over all of the old files and now the hot headed beast sits alone in the garage contemplating it's anti-social mindset.
That's great you have such a classic old computer, and yeah, I believe they built them to last back then. However, that hardly means that every model of every computer that Apple has made since then has the same perfect track record.