CalifBill wrote:
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CalifBill wrote:
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CalifBill wrote:
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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.
I'm not talking about "the original" Macs from 25 years ago. Maybe you
should get out for a look see.

Crikey.
They are not the 25 year old systems, but is from the same culture.
What? Oh...you don't like the "Mac Culture." What's your take on the
*current* engineering in the Macs? You do know that many of the working
pieces and parts are the same as what is in a PC, right?

I'm not at all familiar with the "Mac Culture." But I do like the Mac
stores at the malls, and before I got my new Mac laptop, I looked through
the product lines of at least a half dozen "PC" laptop vendors. I had been
using a rock-solid IBM branded Thinkpad T23, but Lenovo is now a communist
chinese enterprise.

I know lots of parts are the same as PC's. Hell the disk drives that I
designed were used in Mac's. Same drive as the rest except for a little
firmware change to say it was apple and then Apple would accept the drive.
Bought from Apple for 2x what the same drive sold for from everyone else.
Mac Culture if it is the same as the original Mac would say that go for the
look and feel and forget about the extra cost to design with great error
checking.




Well, I am a pretty careful shopper. As I said, I checked a number of
new laptops first. Of all the ones I saw in the same approximate price
range as the MacBook I got, the MacBook seemed superior in ways that
were important to me: well-designed, sturdy, good screen, good package
of included software, decent-sized hard drive, long life on batteries,
decent keyboard, et cetera. The fact that it runs XP and VISTA via a
pretty slick emulator closed the deal for me, along with the 10% discount.

I also like the fact that the Apple stores have resident "Geeks" around
who seem to know their stuff and are willing to help, right on the spot.
Better than calling someone in India, eh?