"hk" wrote in message
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...if I were starting over, or as a newbie, I'd go with the Apple stuff.
It's simply far more elegant, and the level of tech support available from
some of the smaller vendors who supply Mac software is incredible. I was
trying to set up a popular backup program for the Mac, not the one that
comes with it, and I actually got emails of help from the author of the
program.

But it is the well-engineered (and overpriced!) hardware that I really
like.

The original Mac's were some of the slickest looking systems, with some of
the crappiest engineering inside of all systems! No parity on major busses,
minimal power supply, that hardly provided enough power for the system as it
was. Maybe the newer ones are better engineered, but I would not bet on it.
The user interface is very nice, but PARC research center should have
patented it.