As long as Apple remains a company committed to forcing users to buy
their computer hardware to run their computer software, they will
always be a second rate company committed solely to the profit motive
and greed. But, as the future of computing is multi-platform - any
desktop or
The competition is actually a weird combination of hardware and OS.
I love the fact that Dell's Linux packages are the same price as their
Windows packages.
Because the major cost is in the hardware not the OEM OS installed.
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Running any form of Windows or Microsoft software on my Mac is not
the issue - not because I dislike MS software, but because I prefer
Apple and Mac software. Plus, I don't want to have any pesky bugs to
deal with - that's the main reason I switched to Apple - afterwards I
discovered
Only those close insiders know how Steve and Bill actually get along
- perhaps now as friendly competitors. After all, Microsoft didn't
crush Apple like it is rumored to have Commodore, Amiga and others.
Or perhaps those companies crumbled from the sheer lack of user
support. Perhaps,
Hello,
Telco sent out a friendly tech who lives in a semi-rural area as I
do. He informed me that there were no problems from ATT's
perspective but admitted that the lines were old, probably somewhat
corroded and had not been replaced because of the concentration of
users in the area.
Thanks for your input esp. about the pair gaining. My modems are v.
92 isp is at least V.90 dial-up. Yup - I've had telco here several
times over the years and they even ran a new line to the house from
the the main cable pedestal, put new lines in the house and new
jacks. The problem
