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• Wednesday, November 7, 2007 06:39 PM

  Response to Freddie

  Hey Freddie, I don't think anyone is "privileging idiocy" here but just offering a better option. If you would rather go through the hoops you have to to own your PC that is your business. Don't call other people idiots because they have simply moved to a better system. Yes I said better system. I am a tech responsible for hundreds of machines on a college campus. I should say that 10% of the machines I service are PC's and they require about 90% of my time. When you talk about building your superior, faster, PC for less, you aren't taking in account the amount of wasted processing that goes into Windows' mammoth OS. Half of your RAM and processing is going toward running your OS, and never gets to your Apps. I could take the same App on a less beastly Mac and run it faster and more efficiently. You can't argue the innovation that Apple demonstrates and if you are using Vista, you can pretty much thank OSX.4. Instead of rebuilding the OS they just added more crap on top of the existing junk they had before to make it look better. So I don't think it's a matter of people "not knowing how to work their computer" as much as it is people finding out that there is an easier more efficient way to use their computer.

  You can load Windows on a Mac as well if you'd like, of course you could also haul manure in a Bentley, but why would you want to?

  —seascooch Read seascooch's other letters
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