Date:         Sat, 1 Jun 2002 01:42:14 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: MAC vs PC
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>and agreed. nobody does want to think for themselves.
>hell, nobody seems to think at all anymore.

Never did...

>if i had a penny for every time i got completely
>infuriated with all the stupid people i have to deal
>with i'd be SO RICH RIGHT NOW.

You and me both!

>stupid people always think those that are smarter than
>they are are 'smug'. let 'em rot, i  say.

Yup.

>Damn Straight. Macs Rule.

Amen!

>that being said, i use a PC because it was supa-
>cheap. using recycled circa 1997 parts for this poor
>beastie (pentium MMX 233 OC'ed to 262.5 with a big
>honkin' heatsink). Us FedEx Serfs gotta be cheap,
>yaknow :(

About as fast as an LCII.

>what i'd like to have is something apple doesn't make.
>a black G4 Cube with chrome trim and a monitor and
>stand like the new 'sunflower' iMacs.

Unfortunately the Cube was a dog. Full of bugs. Some refused to work
unless laid on their sides... doing WONDERS form the components, as
the cooling chimney wouldn't function! Those which DID work got so
hot they were dangerous. (info from the Mac lists)

>that would *Rule*.

Wait for the G5s, due any time now. Wish I could afford one.

>and a fan, it needs a fan so i can overclock it.

Fans always addable.

>and,as an aside, Windows XP (with all the silly
>crayola interface crap turned off (disable the
>'themes' service)) is actually pretty fast,

You can run Virtual PC on a Mac and use Windoze... but why?

>and XP
>home is the first really stable consumer windows.

Nope. The Mac OS was. Gates had it copied (and screwed it up!).

>i still want me an OS X machine, though :)

Any Mac upgradable to G3 or G4 can run OSX (Unix). Sonnet has the fix.

>OS X= Elegant, Windows XP's 'luna' (that blue windows
>look) is just retarded.
>
>and you need one of those nice dual 1GHz Gee-Four
>powermacs. ooooh those are nice. *uNF*.

About as fast as a Windoze 2.5gHz machine.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy and
millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million
machines in use worldwide.

Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far
more numerous than humans and that numbers alone do not denote a
higher life form.

- New York Times November 26, 1991