[ale] [OT] Mac prices (was OT - old hardware)

[Sean Kilpatrick]

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On Thursday 12 June 2003 09:57 am, John Wells wrote:
> Apple is still priced for the elitist, not the hobbyist...

I would suggest that Apple's computers also are priced for the
working stiff who must use the computer to get work done, and who
has little interest in and less time to waste on unscrambling
technical issues. This is especially so for those who work in
the graphic arts. If I plug a memory card reader into a Mac, it
just works. I don't have to spend hours trying to find and download
the correct driver and then spend more time trying to configure
my system to make the thing work properly. Same goes for a film
scanner. My next project on this Linux box is to plug in a combo
Firewire/USB2 card and try to get it to play well with Linux.

Now I still have serious *issues* with Macs. My wife has a new one
at work that runs OSX with some sort of emulator so she can still use
older software that only runs on OS9. For the life of me I can not
figure out how to change the typeface on the desktop -- the typeface
for icon titles. I can change its size -- but that's all. I am
confident that there is a configuration file somewhere that holds
the key data, but I have no idea what it might be called. If I
knew its name, I might be able to edit it via the command line.

Sean

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