If you compare a VW and a Mercedes you will see tires, a steering wheel, seats... does that make them equal?
Which VW and Daimler-Chrysler products are you comparing- VW makes cars from the low priced subcompacts up to the Phaeton, Touraeg/Cayanne, Audi, and Bentley and light and medium trucks. Daimler Chrysler competes with VW in every market segment from the A class subcompacts and Neon through several SUVs wearing Dodge, Jeep, and Mercedes badging as well as the traditional Mercedes and Chrysler midrange and luxury cars. Daimler-Chrysler also produces Setra buses, Freightliner, Sterling, and Western Star trucks, Detroit Diesel engines, and owns half of MTM industrial engines. So just what "Mercedes" and "VW" were you comparing?
Yes, but when that processor is going to have to spend a lot of time dealing with spyware and virii, it's going to be much less efficient than in some lab.
And if that processor is running under Linux it will have no more problems with such vermin that a Mac running OSX.
That's hilarious. Linux is still a playground for people who have more time than money. I like that even your own words indicate that you would be assured of tearing your hair out, but it would be free.
That was partly true 5 years ago. In 1998 I installed Redhat 5.2 on a Mitsubushi AMiTY mini laptop and it was a challenge. A couple months back I installed Suse on a couple year old PC for a friend and it was much easier, taking less than an hour.
Correction: "For the user on a tight budget with plenty of copious free time and a very high comfort level with computers and a willingness to dig under the hood of their computers."
Again, having done a Linux installation recently I know otherwise. Getting complex applications like a screen reader for a blind user can entail some work, but that's an application Apple doesn't offer at any price.
I've had my Mac for almost a year, and it has paid for itself in the time that I have spent using it rather than fixing it.
That was true of my first Mac, the 333 mhz iMac I'm typing this on. Since then I've probably spent more time trying to make my Pismo work than it took to get Linux running.
Your "average user" is a complete myth.
Not entirely- in any mass market product like computers the majority will make similar uses of them. In the case of computers these uses tend to be stuff like web surfing, e-mail, etc. For those purposes any Mac or Linux running PC will do the job. But for some users that do stuff like video production, etc. the fastest Mac available is entirely justified. My loathed manager at work would be better off with just one terminal so he would be less distracted from doing his job.
Dyna
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