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benzzoy@ucsee.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Benz OuYang ~{E7QtEt>Y~}) wrote:

>To be totally fair, if you buy a Windows machine and never modify it for 
>your use (i.e. your needs are satisfied as delivered and the store you 
>bought your computer from did a good job of setting it up), then you will
>probably not run into any of those nasty Windows Plug and Pray situations.
>However, if you do want to upgrade it yourself, then that's a totally
>different story all together. 

The point is, the average worker does _not_ add hardware to their
machine, or even software.  If a study was based on adding such
hardware and software to a machine, it can hardly accuraretly reflect
how "productive" the average worker is under a Windows vs. a Mac
environment, as he/she will never deal with such tasks.

>>Apple needed a study to tell me that it takes longer to install new
>>hardware on a PC as compared to a Mac? :)

>People who have not been exposed much to the Mac and/or have been misled
>by Salesdroids don't really know how much easier it is to set up and
>upgrade a Mac as compared to a WinTel machine.

Used to be.  That dies on Thursday.  Good lord, even Infoworld, which
has _loved_ to sink it's teeth into the flesh of Win95 so far, lauded
the set up capabilities of Win95.