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Someone posing as Rev Turd Fredericks scratched on the wall:


>>> 1) Macs are way over priced and underpowered
>>I'd hardly call 64 bit dual G5 processors underpowered.  And the iMacs are
>>not overpriced.

Hahahahahaha!!!

Ribfeed - open your eyes, you've been getting screwed!

>>Where else can you get a top-quality 20" LCD and 64 bit 
>>computer setup with quality components and stylish design to beat that
>>price?>>You could probably build something yourself out of shit parts, but 
>>you get the lack of reliability that comes with it.

Ever since around the '80s, PC components have been a commodity. AFAIK,
there are only two manufacturers for LCD monitors. If you buy one from
Apple, Dell, Toshiba, whatever, it comes from the same place. Your chipset
is from one of a few manufacturers, too. PC's - regardless of whether
they're built for Apple, Dell, IBM, or any of the thousands of Chinese
shops here where I live are from the same parts.

The only difference is that Apple has always charged a premium, because
peeps like you and that idiot Chris still get sucked into it.

Its not as if I don't know this from experience - I've bent over for the
great Apple several times. I've had a IIe, SE, LC, and even a Performa.
Unfortunately from System 7 on, the OS was crap.  

It was so bad, my mother even switched about three years ago from the Mac
platform and went cold-turkey into Windows 2000. I'm about to switch her
over to Linux.


> 
> That's the key, build yourself but with *good* parts and put a free OS
> on it and you are free from the monopolists.

Exactly!!  Rev does what I do.


>>
>>For the record I use both mac and PC at home, I have a dual 1.8G5, and a
>>3Ghz Pentium 4 that I built myself out of the best brands, neither have
>>crashed since I bought/built them, XP is the best MS OS so far that I have
>>seen,

haven't sen much, have you?  NT 5.1 is probably the worst OS since System 7.
About as reliable, too.

>>but it still has a very long way to go compared to MacOS X, 
>>especially
>>in ease of networking.

Yeah, if my machine only did AppleTalk out of a little circle SCSI port, I'd
have a pretty easy time, too.


>>I like the PC hardware almost as much as I like the mac hardware, but the
>>OS
>>on PCs leaves a lot to be desired.  And Linux is not a viable alternative
>>(yet) for most people despite what many may think.

The only thing that makes Apple OS's nice is that they boot the system from
ROM. Since the propeller-heads at Apple only have to write for a small list
of specifications, they should be able to spend more time making it stable.
I haven't used System 10 yet, but from what I've seen on my father-in-law's
eMac it is basically an Apple-flavored Linux.

Maybe they'll finally do something good with it.

> 
> I'm not a big fan of XP, but it is vey stable, I rebooted my work
> machine today for the first time since I installed service pack 2  and
> I don't honestly remember when that was. I only rebooted because I
> wanted to try knoppix.

Heh, I'm suprised you get that kind of stability, Rev. I've only seen issues
at work with our Dell machines running XP. 



-- 
kai
"friends don't let friends use windows xp"