Re: Love and Hate

In article <d9qf6p$8sf$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
bo774@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kelly Bert Manning) wrote:

> Good for you. Leaving them by the side of the road doesn't seem to work
> reliably. I drove my wife out to the ferry on a Friday evening so she could
> visit a old friend in Vancouver. Spotted what looked like the same model of
> Compaq we bought in 1998 by the side of the road, with it's CD and floppy
> drives still in place. Still there when I drove home and again 2 days later
> when I went to the ferry again and brought her back on Sunday. This was
> only a 2 lane road, but it is one of the 3 main north south routes in a
> built up urban area. Nobody seemed to want an 8 year old PC, even for
> parts.
>
> Apple fanatics claim that "Sanitation Engineers" swear that they never
> see people throwing out Apples in the trash, only wintel boxes. OTOH,
> there are up to 30 times as many wintels bought or replaced in a given
> year as Apples. Small wonder more end up in the trash.

That is funny. It isn't because there are 30 times as many bought, it
is because the Compaqs, Dells and various other wintel brands tend to be
junk that will not last. They remind me of the 'planned obsolescence'
that Detroit used to do. Even if you do buy the greatest box in the
world, Micro$oft is going to make it useless when it releases the
'revolutionary new OS' that it releases every other year.

I'm using a circa 1999 Apple as my primary box -- a dual G4/450mhz. All
I've added is enough hard drive space (using the pre-cabled bays and the
RAID software built into the MacOS) to hold my extensive CD collection.
It still performs wonderfully compared with todays wintel machines.

This is only a year younger than the piece of junk that nobody wanted in
the Wintel version. And I expect to get a few more years out of this
one as well.

To top it off, my PowerMac DP G4/450 still sells on the used market for
about $600. Can you do that with any wintel from 1998 or 1999? Can you
even sell a wintel from last year?

There is an old saying -- you get what you pay for.

Sadly, Apples new slogan is "Think the Same" -- they are going to Intel
chips next year...
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