On Jul 28, 2007, at 8:23 AM, Paul Meyer wrote:
Steve, WADR, none of your reasons sound even remotely right. I would
suggest:
I must tell you that I was being quite ridiculous on purpose to a
fair degree.
2. I have been pricing/buying pc's since the early 90's and never
bought a Mac.
(until last year).
Reason 1: PC' were used at work
Reason 2: Price (as well as price of peripeherals)
Reason 3: availability of software (not necessarily quality of
software)
I fully agree with this point. DOS machines were for the office
crowd, they were less costly and they had the business software
available. Also, everybody and their brother was making DOS machines,
and the same applies today for Windows machines. The market was/is
flooded.
Btw, Since the earliest days Dos-Windows has always been considered
unstable
and the x86 chipset a real hack with its segmented memory architecture.
i know. Again, I was being intentionally silly when suggesting that
the Mac OS was perceived to be historically flaky.
Btw, I think one of the reasons that Mac-PC debate is so acrimonious
is because
it folds in real class differences. I was a grunt in the computer
industry
for five years before I started to get any decent income.
What class differences are you referring to? Income levels? The
nature of work that one buys a PC to do versus a Mac? The iconoclast
versus the lemmings, no insult intended?
I gravitated from the Atari line to the Mac, and I feel it was
primarily because the Atari was more Mac-like than PC-like that I made
that decision. The Mac was considered to be the better graphics
machine, and that was/is my line of work.
Speaking from experience, if you have to save months or longer to
buy a computer (and they were expensive in the early days) the price
difference between Mac and PC was significant and the TCO arguments
irrelevant..(Apple peripeheral were also more
expensive).
Agreed.
The flip side of the coin, is that historically Wintel partisans tend
to cast Apple users
as frivolous, unsophisticated (perhaps unmanly?).
Agreed. If by unmanly and unsophisticated you mean to say that Mac
users are not often having to get out the tool box to go "under the
hood" and fix things, then I'll live with those terms.
What did Rodney King say?
Hey, I love my Windows brothers and sisters. I just hate to hear
that their computer is down again, or that it is running slow again and
it has only been a couple of weeks since the tech last fixed that
problem.
Steve
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