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> On Aug 18, 2016, at 4:11 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 8/18/2016 3:01 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> It has also been my personal experience that if I want to "just get >> things done", most of the time Linux boxes work that way from >> installation, whereas it takes quite a bit of work installing usable >> editors, compilers, cygwin and other tools on Windows machines. > > Different level of "just get things done" there. Same here. I have to "get things done. " Frequently more than 1000 words a day of well researched copy, lots of photo processing and countless communications. In a previous life I had to write command lines in ASCII Express just to communicate or send files to NY. That's crippling, My Retina 5K iMac hauls ass through any work load. The 4 Ghz i7 processor makes Photoshop as fast as a text based program. SSD helps with that, and 32 gigs of RAM is more then enough for anything I do. With a Linux box I would sit there and stare at the wall. And starve. We're not all computer scientists. In fact I bet the number is less than a hundredth of one percent. > I don't need a bunch programmer's tools. I need Open Office, a Mozilla > browser & Thunderbird plus whatever level of image editing tools. > > This system is general use, internet & film scanning. My other system is > built specifically to make PhotoShop scream and I don't have anything on > it that doesn't enhance PhotoShop. > > >>> I'm not anti-Mac either as such. But they cost more than building your >>> own. >> >> For a long time, Mac and Windows machines of similar performance didn't >> have that huge of a price differential. Particularly if you bypassed the >> Apple tax on memory and drives, bought the system with minimal memory >> and drive and upgraded it yourself. Lately, Apple has completely >> abandoned anyone who wants anything but the slimmest, lightest, >> daintiest machine, particularly in the field of expandability. > > The similarity in cost/performance between Mac and Windoze systems holds > true for PRE-built systems; if you just want to go to the store and buy > a system, bring it home, unbox it & turn it on. And the "roll your own" > to get a lot more computer for a given dollar strategy worked against > PRE-built Windoze systems the same as it did against Mac systems. > > Apple's current direction only increases the cost savings advantage of > "roll your own" against Mac systems. The advantage over PRE-built > Windoze systems has only increased a small amount in comparison. > > There are plenty of PRE-built Windoze systems that match Mac in terms of > "slimmest, lightest, daintiest" and lack of expandability. For a given > price point it seems like the only major difference is the Macs are all > i5 processors and the Windoze machines are all i7 processors. Although, > you can still buy Windoze gaming systems that have a DVD/Blu-ray drive > standard. > > I can build my own, save a lot of money, get a lot more performance than > either a Mac OR a PRE-built Windoze will offer, and I can install > Windoze on it. Microsoft won't care. > > Installing Mac OS on a "roll your own" system - Hackentosh not > withstanding - is just not on. > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
