Ah, but Chipp, the fly in your ointment (oooh, ugly metaphor) is the word "just". The premium buys you (in the best scenario):
* more secure Vista * more stable Vista * OS X and all its charms (BTW, I blogged this one at http://www.danshafer.com/onemind/?q=node/98 On 4/17/06, Chipp Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting, but you're right, Cringely often is not. > > Couple serious holes, among them the fact I just bought a Sony Core Duo > laptop including 1Gb RAM, DVD read/write, integrated camera, PCMCIA slot > and slots for all other 'card media', Fire-wire, and ULTRA-BRITE display > for only $1300. > > You can't touch that for under $2K from Apple. So, there's quite a > premium (> 33%) to purchase an Apple laptop just to run Windows. > > best, > > Chipp > > Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Bob Cringely always has an interesting take on things, as is right about > > 20 times more often than John Dvorak (which I suppose isn't saying much > > <g>). > > > > This week he opines about Boot Camp, a fun read -- esp. if you own > > Apple stock: > > <http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060413.html> > > > > -- > -------------- > Chipp Walters > www.altuit.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author http://www.shafermedia.com Get my book, "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought" >From http://www.shafermediastore.com/tech_main.html _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
