[ale] mac v pc

[D. Alan Stewart]

Yes, but most of the world doesn't want to build their own (hardware or 
software)  from pieces. They don't even really want to pick out all the pieces 
and have someone else put it together. Most want to buy a 'toaster' that just 
plugs in and works out of the box, but doesn't limit what they can do. No one 
has that yet, but Apple is closer than most, if not all.

> I was kind of thinking the same thing:
> 
> I don't have anything against Macs or their users but I'm a little
> surprised that such pro-Mac content would be on a Linux board since (from
> a purely religious viewpoint) Mac takes a proprietary OS then goes a step
> further and runs it on proprietary hardware.  granted, to their credit
> they actually work but so did those six E4500s I replaced last yr w/quad
> Xeons for ~1/6th the cost.
> 
> this, I believe, was the point of the original question:  Apple may not be
> evil but like HP, Sun & IBM (@ least w/RS6000 & 390) their $ is out of
> line with their bang.
> 



D. Alan Stewart
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Layton Graphics, Inc.
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