On 1/10/06 8:22 PM, "John A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 10, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> Dual-core Intel iMac...available today. >> >> > > And so begins the "end-times". "Alas poor Macintosh! I knew ye > well....." > > > J > "Man's loneliness is but his fear of life." > I don't know about "end-times". Think about it, what made a Mac a Mac, the hardware or the OS? Of course logically one would say the integration of both, but the OS does play a big part of why it's a Mac... it sure ain't Winbloze or DOS! I got interested in Macs because of the OS not so much of the hardware. Later as I learned more about hardware, then I became interested in learning how to tweak it to run faster. In the end it was still the OS that helped me complete projects. I just knew that at least I wasn't working in DOS or Winbloze 3.1.
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