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• Wednesday, November 7, 2007 06:34 AM

  Completely silly

  The old 'The New Republic Fallacy'... or magazine version of the Big Lie: Not only is what you thought not quite exactly correct, but it is far the opposite of what you thought.

  I have plenty of experience with Macs and PCs. I have drifted further into PCs as my work has required but the girlfriend still has her Macs. My own issues with Mac has been less developed development software available, but that is ever changing -- it has simply become a necessity for me to be PC most of the time. But ass I said, the girly girl is a steadfast Maccer.

  Nevermind the complete nonsense that selling PCs factored into your economic model -- the market for affordable used Macs exists BECAUSE Macs are expensive.

  And Macs really do last longer necessarily. I kept a Dell PC laptop up and running for 6-7+ years until the screen finally came loose, and did so due to my own knowledge of what to do with the terminal. The girlfreind, a bit less savvy has a desktop mac (pre-new core that runs at the spead of a glacier, and you can correct me if I am wrong but, even given that MS OS memory management was meant for floppy disks, the options for upkeep on the Mac are less user friendly and functional that that on MS.

  There is also the peripherals problem. While there may be plenty of Mac knockoffs for a variety of devices, the girlfriend spilled coffee all over her keyboard, wrecking it. The replacement cost for PCs we know is minimal but the replacement cost direct from MAC was around 50 dollars I think.

  Mac has a fine system that has left behind the shame of the Power PC era, and the OS looks better and better, but your logic is completely silly accross the board.

  —Gams on Glass Read Gams on Glass's other letters
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