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Article #83Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem
From: davidb
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:39
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:39
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On Jul 22, 10:10 pm, John Slade <hhitma...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Macs have the same cheap components as PCs made by Dell, > HP and others. The main difference is the packaging that gives > no performance boost over other PCs. But they maintain that > illusion to a small percentage of people and that's a major > reasons Macs have survived another reason is that Macs are now > PCs that run Windows. That's not why I have a Mac. I have a Mac because (a) I like having access to a genuine UNIX command line[1], (b) I find the GUI on the Mac to be better designed than the various X11 window managers and *much*, *much* better designed than Windows, (c) I did systems administration for 12 years and got burned out on it so I like having something that "just works", (d) I want to be able to, say, buy a new digital camera and be reasonably sure I can easily get it to interoperate with my computer[2] because the box says it works with a Mac (Linux is mentioned nowhere on it, of course). The Mac satisfies all these needs. That it costs a little more matters not; I'd rather spend more and have something that does what I want than to chintz and be disappointed. [1] Sorry, Cygwin ain't UNIX. Not even close. [2] And no, it is *not* my idea of a fun leisure-time activity to try and buy one of the cameras listed as being supported by, say, the latest Ubuntu release, only to find they've all been discontinued and replaced with new models, so I have to download and install a new driver, which either doesn't work or makes my computer crash because it only runs under the latest development kernel, which I then install but which breaks half a dozen existing packages which I need to use, and .... -- David Barts Portland, OR
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