Adrian writes,
<What Apple needs to do is get product placement on shows depicting working class families. There is the impression that only rich people can afford one. Or woulld that tarnish the Mac mystique ?>
To do this would be a case of "false advertising," if you ask me. I know too many people who liked Macs and wanted them originally, but bought PCs because PCs were within their budget and Macs were too expensive. Then they got used to the PCs and stuck with 'em. I myself was almost priced out of being a Mac owner. To wit --
In the mid-80s when all my friends were getting computers, I went computerless because I'd gotten spoiled on the Mac I was using at work, a Mac Plus on System 6 with a 40 MB HD, which at that time was state-of-the-art Mac. I didn't like my friends' computers enough to want to spend money on and own one; to me they were garbage compared to a Mac. I, however, decided to wait to buy a computer until I COULD buy a Mac. So I didn't even own a computer until 1995. Yes, I'm an extremist. I was in love with a Mac and would settle for nothing else in a computer. But I'm not with the majority on most things anyway, so why should this be different?
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Yeah why shouls anyone buy an underpowered Mac laptop when they can have a 3 MHz P4 with that wonderful Windows OS for a lot less ?
For God sake don't portray working class people as Mac users. That would give people the impression they were as good as their " Betters ' .
We can't have that !
-- Adrian
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