On 4 Sep 2006 at 2:49, William T Goodall wrote: > > On 4 Sep 2006, at 2:27AM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: > > > Andrew Crystall wrote: > >> > >>> A low-end Mac Pro will cost you $2,124 compared with $3,071 for a > >> > >> In America. For one specific model. And with a very expensive Windows > >> PC make for comparison. And without similar options for warranty, > >> etc. > >> > > Here in Brazil it's even worse. A Mac costs about twice as much > > as the equivalent PC-cum-Windoze. > > > > But that's a short sighted view. The Mac is much cheaper in the long > term. I recently retired an old Mac still in working order, that was > nearly ten years old. Ten years of useful life! > > Reliable technical sources available on the internet confirm that a > Windows PC connected to the internet is filled with backdoors, > trojans, key-loggers and other malware in ten minutes. Ten minutes of > useful life! > > Thus even if a Mac cost $100,000 and a PC only $1 over the course of > ten years the Mac would work out cheaper! Still only $100,000 whereas > you'd need over $500,000 worth of PCs! > > Comparisons Maru
Yes, if you're a blithering retard, as apparently you are. There are no other words for it. Let's see, on one hand you're comparing the length a machine can run without breaking down, which is based largely on build quality. Moreover, that mac largely is a sealed box, and you can't upgrade parts, etc. On the other hand, you're comparing the time a computer can be connected to the internet, entire unprotected, before it picks up nastyware. Which a variety of free firewalls and virus scanners protect against. Blithering. Retard. It's not even elephant vs mouse. It's a piece of paper vs the transdimensional ghost who inhabits your frontal lobes. AndrewC. Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
