> From: BllPear@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Were you in my position, what would you do?
I wouldn't pre-judge the outcome, and I wouldn't compare Apples with
oranges. A "no name" computer is not even a Gateway or a Dell, so why
compare it with a well-regarded brand name?
Besides, the purchase price argument is short-sighted. According to
IDC, Macs have longer functional lifetimes and have lower fully
amortized costs than even garage-built no-name PCs. The average PC is
obsolete in three years. My first PowerMac G4 -- purchased over five
years ago -- is my hardest working machine, serving a dozen web sites
and handling email for as many domains.
Besides, your numbers were wrong. Don't feel bad -- it's not unusual
for someone to take Apple's top-of-the-line price and compare to some
garage-assembled no-name computer. But Apple has just announced a $499
machine. So by someone else's bias in the opposite direction, it
appears you may have paid about $501 too much for yours... :-)
I'm sorry for baiting. I'll be good now. But I still insist that people
either "get" the Mac, or they don't. If you don't "get" it, that's okay
-- you don't have to attack something you don't fully understand. I'm
not saying you're a bad person for not getting a Mac, just that you
don't "get it," the same way a Nikon or Canon user doesn't "get" the OM
system. It's no big thing, really.
:::: Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in
nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
-- George W. Bush
:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Van>
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