On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 7:23 PM, mike <xha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not at all a bigot. The point is there is a choice, Tom likes to pretend > there isn't. That you only give up things by getting a pc, the point is > you > give up things getting a mac too..like cash. > > His comment was that 'macs are priced similarly to pc's', this was > incorrect > by no small measure. I get sick of his FUD. I never said you get nothing > for that 700 dollars, indeed you do get a lot if what you get gives you > peace of mind. For some, like me who build their own systems all the time, > the extra money is not worth it by any measure. You bring up MS, you could > also buy that cyberpower laptop and put ubuntu on it. > > Apple has a great space in which they control with great authority. That > control comes at a price as noted in another thread. If your app is not > approved by the Apple guys, you are not getting on the iphone. Android has > a similiar process except for one big part...if you get denied you can post > the app yourself and anyone can still download and install it with the > warning 'this was not approved by the market place, do you want to > continue?' Why yes, I do want to continue because I like choice and > freedom > to make my own decisions. >
My decsion is I prefer to use a Mac OS rather than the latest M$ kludge job but my office has PCs so it pays to be able to use the cursed devices- I know they are cursed they make me curse them all the time. Win7 is way less crappy but I need to try to run it on a more modern machine than my 6 year old HP system. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
