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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT]   Is The MAC Dead
From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:14:49 -0800
> From: BllPear@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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> 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 The average PC is 
obsolete in three years.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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