On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 16:34:05 PM -0800, Tony Alfrey
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> My puzzlement is why the home user buys a cheap box, yet pays for the
> hassle and expense of M$ upgrades, yet doesn't buy a Mac up-front, which
> IMHO is a near-perfect unix platform, at least as far as the user
> interface is concerned.
Sorry, isn't it obvious? Because:
the home user has never heard before of unix
many new computer buyers have no idea at all if "Microsoft" means the
beige box, the monitor, what they see drawn on the monitor
at splash screen, that window in which they type letters or any
combination of them. They just know "it's those guys who do all
computers" (1)
the home user has no idea whatsoever of why he or she should ever
care to know these things (and so far the FOSS community has
consistently failed to explain it)
many computer shops and department stores only sells x86 boxes
Marco
(1) I regularly meet _professionals_ saying things like "My new
computer? I _believe_ is manufactured by that company... what was its
name now... Pentium Inc., I believe, but why? Does it make any
difference??". Or people proudly telling me "see? Isn't my brand new
computer much more beautiful and less bulky than the old one" when all
that actually happened is that their partner or son replaced the old
CRT monitor with an LCD one, leaving the same beige box unseen under
the desk.
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