Apple Computers no panacea

this is not news to anybody with a mac. Oh, it's great that the virus teams are not staying up nights as often to hit the lower market share apples, but in the past couple years I've had far more problems with mac computers than in all the prior years:

• my G5 had a "coolant leak" that required a week in the Crywolf repair shop
• my Macbook pro had a freezing problem that required a new board
• my daughter's mac book pro (late 2008) has been down with problems for weeks now including keyboard freezing, trackpad freezing, no detection of the airport
• my other dual-core G5 has had to be in for a memory failure

in short, every single computer that i've purchased from Apple in the past two years has had a significant hardware problem that required one week+ of shop time to correct.

that's why I found this NY Times article about the high ratings on mac computers so puzzling. Perhaps the PCs are just so much worse, but frankly that makes little sense.