On May 31, 2:16*pm, "Billy Smith" <chungkingchungk...******.com>
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> >> "Dave" <nos...@biteme.com> wrote in message
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> >>>>> B> I run this Vista computer for mostly multimedia purposes and web
> >>>> browsing. I haven't rarely had a coughing fit out of it. Nothing like
> >>>> what older models did. XP included.
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> >>> You can do that stuff way faster on a Linux box. *And with a lot less
> >>> risk and hassle.
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> >> Linux is generally crap. I know because I installed it on a couple of my
> >> machines. It caused more problems using that crap and utilizing software
> >> than anything I have ever seen. Pure garbage. Just about like that other
> >> computer operating system called the Mac. I wouldn't have a Mac for
> >> toilet paper. Every Mac I saw ran like crap and you couldn't do 1/3 of
> >> what you can do on a Windows based Machine. That comes from a lot of
> >> personal experience with Mac based stuff back in the 90s and early part
> >> of this decade.
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> >> It might be great now but back in those days they should have called it
> >> Crap versus Mac.
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> > Linux and Apple have their place, and with your comments I doubt you have
> > ever owned an Apple.
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> > The HUGE benefit of Linux over say Vista is Linux is not DRM invasive.
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> I never owned an apple but I used to have a lot of experience running the
> Apple/Mac system. I wasn't impressed with anything that it could allegedly
> do. Personally it was like an overhyped Ipod phone or Touch. A lot of glitz
> but little real performance. Not user friendly, not even for the novice. I
> probably spent at least a year on that sort of a system and I was none too
> impressed. Thats why Mac will never catch up to Microsoft in anything. The
> only people I personally knew that used Macs were kids wanting to use it for
> graphics. For business operations, office work, etc, it was never worth
> anything. I wouldn't even give a Mac system the time of day for even audio
> listening or multimedia video and audio.
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> If Macs were so proficient and useful, then why in the hell doesn't everyone
> in the world switch to Macs. Since there is a free market in computers anda
> great deal of industriousness and ingenuity in the computer industry, then
> Macs should be right up there. Not to mention the facts are that a Microsoft
> based system can be had for 300 to 1000 dolllars and a good one at that.
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> What does a Crap cost? I was in the local Apple store recently here in
> Louisville KY. It was laughable that they wanted twice as much as any
> Microsoft PC and with less performance capabilities, less general respect.
> You'll see who buried who in the computer systems operating business
> environment. It sure wasn't Mac. Probably more people use Linux than Mac and
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MAC/Apples has three problems to Real Growth and
becoming a the Premier World Wide Standard :
propioritory, Proprietary. PROPRIETARY ! -aka-
single-source, Single-Source. SINGLE SOURCE !

Microsoft 'only' tries to control the Software side or the
Hardware-&-Software Equation letting the Open Market
energize the Hardware side and overall creating a very
Dynamic Consumer and Business Market for their Product.

Microsoft does not Focus on Selling their Product to
Consumers they let an Infinite Number of Hardware
Product providers do that for them. While Apple is
basically a One Company Show in the Consumer
Market and tends to stagnate after a few months
to a year with each new product that is introduced.

The iPod is the Exception because the Apple Hardware
and Apple OS benefits from and Infinite Number of
Softwave Product providers with a near unlimited amount
of Songs and Music -plus- Apple has fround a way to
Monitize the Software side of the Market to make it a
Profit Center for this Business.

The iPhone is a Product whose Profitability is TBD.

it's a vision thing ~ RHF