Gene Kearns wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:28:51 -0500, John H. penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:


|When I first started teaching, we had Macs everywhere. I think they were
|being given to the schools in the hopes the kids would get hooked.
|Eventually the county in which I teach got the word and went with Dells,
|for the most part. Now it's hard to find a Mac in the school.

Yeah, great half-marketing strategy. Apple gave the schools tons of
computers.... and they were used and appreciated.

It didn't work because Apple did a poor job of placing computers in
the workplace. Employers didn't see any advantage in students trained
on computers and an operating system they didn't use.

So..... Dell is usually the low bid and school systems buy cheap. We
have thousands of computers at my school and they are all Dell....



I love the Apple stores at the two malls around here, and I sure like
the ergonomics of the Apple computers, but the higher end machines are
grossly overpriced, to the point of being ridiculous when you consider
what is actually inside the nice case. What's in the case? A proprietary
motherboard and chipset and beyond that, standard PC components
available everywhere at much much lower prices.

Apple spends a lot of time and money on the external design of its
produces, and this is as true for its PCs as it is for its iPods.