<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Billy Crook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:billycrook@gmail.com">billycrook@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>Oh, but they sure do enjoy the funny commercials, Mac users.... The<br>
rich ones already have macs, and enjoy having overpaid. The poor ones,<br>
if you could distract them from wearing black clothing for a few<br>
minutes would be the target audience.<br></blockquote><div><br>Well, for fear of turning this into a Mac/PC flame^H^H^H^H^Hfunfest, I ought to point out that there's more to a Mac than just style and cost.<br><br>I've had the opportunity to have worked professionally on PCs running Windows, Macintoshes, PCs running Linux, and various commercial Unix offerings on their hardware. Oddly enough the time I felt most productive and enjoyed the experience the most was when I was on a Mac. And that was MacOS 7.x, when they were slow and had cooperative multitasking.<br>
<br>I think the reason that this issue (Mac vs PC) has such a wide variety of opinions has more to do with what people value in their computing experience. Some don't care about the decor and want a inexpensive, utilitarian environment. Others are the opposite. Others have even more different opinions.<br>
<br>Anyhow, I've always enjoyed Macintoshes (and I don't even own one right now). I also enjoy spending a bit more money for Sony televisions. Yes, I could have gotten a Toshiba TALEN for much less, but the fit and finish and the overall quality of the experience on my Sony is better, and for _me_ it was worth it to spend more money to get it.<br>
<br>I'm sure others are different.<br>Jeffrey. <br></div></div><br>-- <br><br>"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine<br>
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