 4 Things 
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Monday, July 09, 2012
4 Things
12 comments:
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Helly said...
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Mac - $9500
PC - $3500
Extra decade of life and freedom from stress for 6 grand - PRICELESS -
7/9/12, 10:59 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I agree with Helly. I will never go back to Windows on cheap hardware.
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7/10/12, 12:54 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Smug Alert!
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7/10/12, 2:22 AM
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Anonymous said...
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You didn't read that very well, guys. That's an extra six grand for the same hardware.
GrinfilledCelt -
7/10/12, 2:25 AM
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James Hooker, Nipple Whisperer said...
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Yeah, GC - BUT, it actually works for more than two weeks.
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7/10/12, 2:46 AM
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I-RIGHT-I said...
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Huh, pretty much the same line of thinking got us Obama but then he is "Mack Daddy" isn't he?
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7/10/12, 6:25 AM
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Anonymous said...
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1. I know of no one who keeps a computer 10 years
2. Strip away the cost of the monitors and drives and the MAC is even MORE expensive
3. For the difference in price I can just buy a new PC when one fails
4. Owned PCs for 16 years. None have ever failed on me.
5. Given the above, the difference can be invested and in 20 years I can buy a new car. -
7/10/12, 6:59 AM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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Good points all. Which reminds me. Helly, I hope you insured the laptop because it never got here.
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7/10/12, 7:17 AM
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B.S. philosopher said...
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You don't get an extra decade of life from a Mac. G5 Macs were discontinued in the middle of 06, 6 years ago. They're now more obsolete than a ten year old Pentium 4. OSX stopped supporting them at 10.5.8 IIRC.
To use the Current version of OSX, 10.8 you need to have a machine that was made later than mid 2007.
It seems to me that Apple is on a 3 year product cycle.
On the other hand, I can load Windows 7 onto a 12 year old Pentium 4 with only 1 GB of RAM and play my 16 bit Microsoft Entertainment pack games from Windows 3.0. -
7/10/12, 4:23 PM
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Steve in Greensboro said...
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Fwiw, I had my last "blue screen of death" in August 2008. Have run Mac since then with zero trouble. Four years of sane computing. I no longer fear my home computer.
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7/10/12, 7:59 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Well Steve, I haven't seen the blue screen of death since sometime in 1999 and I have never run a Mac. I don't know what you guys are doing to gum up your computers but I almost never turn mine off and I download 2-3 gigs a day.
Being a former Amiga user, I don't have any animosity toward Macs, their simple systems and lack of options make them good platforms for children to learn, but I sure have had my fill of their smug owners. Their blind faith and fanaticism reminds me too much of Obama supporters.
GrinfilledCelt -
7/11/12, 3:18 AM
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Anonymous said...
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As a former Atari & Atari ST user, I understand Amiga.. BTW, Jack Tramiel just passed last week. Former concentration camp inmate, immigrated here post WWII and made good. Several sons, IIRC.
I had a windows 95 box that I left running at work for weeks at a time between reboots, and rarely had a BSOD. That was 17 years ago. Holy Sh*T, Seventeen??? Aieeeee..
Any way, unless they have totally thrown quality out the window, I think I could have an XP box up for months at a time, doing all my surfing and emailing. Add in all kinds of software from God knows where, and you can make a decent box have the stability of an elephant balancing on a pencil. Installing software willy-nilly, and checking OK boxes without reading the contents can leave your machine almost unusable. My sister bought the first computer she paid for, a Gateway, and it was FAST. She and daughter have klutzed it up so much it is almost unusable. I think that the only way to recover is to totally wipe her disk. I did a re-install, and that helped, but it still just stops, as if to decide which way to go, and then makes up its mind and starts running again. Malware? Virii? Distorted registry hives? I don't know, but somehow they have turned it into merde.
As stated before, Macs run Unix. Unix rules. Ha ha.
tomw -
7/11/12, 10:14 AM
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