A friend of mine is in the market for a computer. He has seen what my
g5 is like, and is impressed, and I've tried to convince him to buy
an iMac. He would like to but he simply can't afford it.
Instead he's opted for a generic brand PC with 19" monitor for about
Aus$700 less than a 20" iMac. I pointed out the pitfalls and hardware
inadequacies, plus added cost of maintaining a virus riddled OS, but
the bottom line is his wallet at the present moment.
Price is what sells PCs above everything else. If the Mac OS and
Apples great software ran on PC hardware, Apple would make a killing.
Santa
On 08/06/2005, at 4:36 PM, Larry le Mac wrote:
From: BD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Whoa, my friend, that's not snottiness, that's an email
brimming with *surprise* that a member of this list would
have a problem extolling the virtues of any OS X from 10.2
onwards compared to Windows.
If everyone was convinced that Macs are better there wouldn't
merely be a 4% market share would there.
Basically, it matters little what we the minority on this list
thinks, what matters is what Joe Six-Pack (though he sounds
more like Beer-Gut to me).
Proof:
iPod is a success because it truly does not tie with a Mac,
the iPod is platform independent and therefore masses of
PC users have bought one.
Most people use PCs and always will. The CPU inside a computer
is of little, if any imortance to a user. My guess is that 95% of
PC users wouldn't know if their PC ran an Intel or an AMD.
For that matter, how many Mac users know if their Mac is
fitted with a Motorola or an IBM CPU ???...
Larry
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