On Jun 22, 2006, at 2:48 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
In my case, it's because I don't feel like buying all new hardware,
software, and peripherals, while paying more money for lower
performance.
Software and tons of it comes with the hardware. Peripherals will be
plug and play and performance should not judged using the mini.
For example, my PC's 128 megabyte GeForce4 video card, by
no means a state-of-the-art design, runs rings around the 64 megabyte,
non-upgradable video subsystem in my SO's Mac Mini.
Again, the mini. How about comparing the fully upgradeable G-5 dual
processor PowerMac or the new intel dual core G-5 PowerMac or MacBook
Pro, even the new iMac. Check the specs on these models including
standard and upgrade video cards, both with 256MB vRam.
I like MacOS X, but not all the other stuff that goes with it,
frankly.
And all the other stuff is? Peace of mind, the most stable OS known
to man, UNIX, zero% chance of your machine being infected by virus, a
beautiful graphic front-end? Yeah, I hate all that stuff too.
And MacOS X puts you on the same treadmill Windows does, making you
buy
upgrades on a regular basis as then end-of-life older versions and
stop
providing bug fixes.
No one is forced to buy anything from anyone. I have machines from
the late 1990s to date running from OS X 10.1.5 to the latest OS X
Tiger 10.4.6. Mac OS X is open source and developers/users frequently
provide "bug fixes" in the rare instance that the need should arise.
Check some of Apple's discussion forums for good and bad news
concerning Macs.
In reality, bugs are few and far between and even my oldest computer
running the oldest version of OS X just sits there turned on 24/7
(except during electrical storms) and works FOR me, no crashes, ever.
I'm sold, whatever works for you, works for you. Enjoy it between
crashes and virii.
Johnny B.
I Mac Therefore I am
