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On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:01:28 -0400, hk wrote:

...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.

I hate Windoze but if you are willing to live a generation off the
bleediung edge you can have virtually free computing. XP systems are
pretty much junk on the side of the road these days although they are
still very functional. I am still managing to get everything done I
want to do with W/98 but I did build a faster machine pretty cheap
from parts on the internet.

Problem with W98 is some of the applications II had to run would not run
under 98. I think Matlab and Orcad versions I ran were the main culpits.