I teach computers in a High School and the PC's are always in need of something
or other, while the Mac's almost never need any work. You PC folks have been
brainwashed into thinking that working on your computer is normal and just
because you can (or are forced into learning) fix them yourself, then
everything is OK. I want to use my computer, now have it as a constant repair
project.
Tom
Jonah Henry wrote:
> I have a self-built AMD k6-2 350mhz
> the amount I spent to build this system is far less than I would ever have
> to pay for a mac
> and this system runs perfectly fine
> probably less than $500 total
> I never had to spend more than a little over $100 at a time
> it runs windows 2000 perfectly fine
> no problem at all
> very stable
> much more stable than any mac system I've worked on, but I'm sure OSX would
> be a different story
> I easily get over 2 week uptimes, with the system running perfectly stable
> and fine when I reboot, I usually have to reboot to move my computer or swap
> my cdrom for my friends cd-rw when I want to borrow it or something such as
> that, but I never reboot win2k because it needs to be rebooted
> my friend easily gets 5 week uptimes, cause he doesnt reboot as often
>
> I know what you are talking about with the 91 computer running a 96 OS, my
> brother used to run 7.5.5 on his 1989 macIIci, but it never did as much for
> me as this pc has, never as fun to use
>
> I've never had to pay anyone to fix any of my computers
> I've always been able to fix them myself
> and in fact, the only tech support i've ever had to call is 1-800-sos-appl
>
> I'm not trying to convince anyone to switch to PCs or anything, I used to be
> one of you guys, I loved my mac and wouldnt touch a PC, but eventually I was
> forced to use some PCs and figured out that I prefer them over Macs. It's a
> matter of opinion....both systems have their merits. I just get sick of Mac
> people dissing on PCs, and I have no clue where all Mac people seem to have
> such bad experience with PCs
> my school uses a 400+ computer PC network...
> they are all PCs...(except for the annual staff's computers, which are
> powermac something or others, 180mhz...and those things are so damn slow I
> cant use them but I can use a pentium 133mhz perfectly fine) and they all
> work fine
> and if something does go wrong on some computer me or another one of the
> students in this one class goes and fixes it the same day
> when one of the macs in the annual lab has something wrong with it, it
> usually gets looked at by several people and noone can figure out how to fix
> it til I'm forced to go down there myself and fix the damn thing...like when
> out of nowhere the computer just started copying desktop printers and had
> several thousand copies of the desktop printer on the desktop, so...I spent
> an hour deleting them all, rebooted, had to spend another hour deleting them
> all again cause they came back, and then I spent another hour figuring out
> that for some odd reason I needed to disable virtual memory
> anyways this email has become too long so I'll just end it here
>
> oh, and I do like this duo I got from a teacher, no complaints about it
> other than I cant get anything on to it til my brother finds his mac so I
> can localtalk or I buy a dock
>
> seeya
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Draht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Multiple recipients of DuoList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 11:55 AM
> Subject: [Duo] Re: petition for a ROM upgrade for 2400c
>
> > The thing is, in the PC world, yes it'll last a year. That's because
> > windows uses up every available resource you have. It sucks! THen you'll
> > have to upgrade, because all they do in the PC world is buy and upgrade,
> > and then for a good week or so you'll be able to run the latest version
> > of windblows. Then the new version of internet exploder will come out,
> > you'll try to install it, hoop your machine permanently, spend 600$ on
> > repairs, and then they'll tell you that you need everything upgraded.
> > In the mac world, we never had to deal with the first step. I was
> > able to upgrade my powerbook to os 7.1, then os 7.5.5, then os 7.6. My
> > powerbook is 1991, wheras os 7.6 is 1996. That's a five year difference.
> > Now i'll stop ranting before i go onto chapter 2. (=
> > eric
>
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