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pawoSD · #38 10-26-2009, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Craig

Well, I pay that much for my computers (I'm running three or four of them at the moment). I will gladly pay a couple/few $1000 for a computer that doesn't cause me any hassles. I guess I could build my own computers, I could also grow my own vegetables and make my own shoes, but I have better things to do with my time.

The fact that the mac OS is designed to run on very specific hardware is exactly why it works (nearly) perfectly. Maybe that is cheating, so be it. If you want a more open (less expensive) system you have to live with the glitches, that's the trade-off.

I don't understand why people get upset by the price of products they don't own, if you think they are too expensive you don't have to buy one. I'm not complaining because I think the new G-class is too expensive, I'm just not going to buy one. Should I be mad at ferrari because most of their customers earn over $1M per year and I could buy a 'vette with similar performance for a lot less money?

I do hope that windows 7 works well, lots of folks will be happier without vista.

Except in most cases that is not true. My PC cost me less than $300, and took about 45 minutes for me to build + another 30 to install the OS. VS a comparative mac, it is hands down faster and cheaper....and I've had 0 issues at all. People who get "glitches" are the ones with really really cheapo hardware, if you buy decent stuff problems are very rare. For a person that likes to do a wide variety of potentially advanced computing tasks, the MAC is much more frustrating and less adaptable.

I complain about MAC's prices because they make a killing on overcharging their customers for the same thing everyone else has, except it has a shiny cover on it and Steve Jobs saying its "fantastic", and "awesome".