It's a fine line and perhaps I'll get flamed for it. In the context of this subject, I think the end-consumer is as much to blame for basing their purchases based on price alone and not factor in things like usability, quality, durability, service, etc..
I think that kind of mentality has really screwed up a lot of things.
A documentary called Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags detailed what consumer thinking like that did to the New York garment industry.
Like you, I don't mind paying extra for quality, but I don't want to pay $150 for X, when I can get the exact same as X for $100.
I prefer to look at the long term cost of an item. My 2007 iMac is still going strong, while my Gateway laptop purchased a few months earlier became annoying to work with years ago.
A documentary called Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags detailed what consumer thinking like that did to the New York garment industry.
Like you, I don't mind paying extra for quality, but I don't want to pay $150 for X, when I can get the exact same as X for $100.
I prefer to look at the long term cost of an item. My 2007 iMac is still going strong, while my Gateway laptop purchased a few months earlier became annoying to work with years ago.
I have a 1999 iMac which still works just fine. I never use it, because I have many more machines which are newer and far more powerful, but it does look pretty on top of a desk.
My HPs and Dells continue to work great - because I threw Windows away and installed Ubuntu.
The software. When I used Windows I'd reinstall everything every year to keep performance up. I never did that on this one and it slowed down over the years. Once my children started using our Macs, they don't want to use this, they noticed a difference in performance. :-) The only time this would be used vs a Mac is instead of the G4 Mac Mini. It's brutally slow running Flash sites.
Yeah I bought one. Back in 2006 I was still a hardcore windows user, although I bought a Mac Mini to see how sites I'd created looked for Mac users.
If I were to buy another Windows laptop, I think it would be an AlienWare laptop like my nephew has. Although I can't see any reason to do that, unless Parallels or VM-Ware stopped working.
If only Intuit would produce a decent Mac version of QuickTax, instead of their "In order to provide better service to Intuit Canada's Macintosh customers, we are recommending that former QuickTax Macintosh customers use QuickTax online to file their income taxes."
Yeah I bought one. Back in 2006 I was still a hardcore windows user, although I bought a Mac Mini to see how sites I'd created looked for Mac users.
If only Intuit would produce a decent Mac version of QuickTax, instead of their "In order to provide better service to Intuit Canada's Macintosh customers, we are recommending that former QuickTax Macintosh customers use QuickTax online to file their income taxes."
Quicktax is the only Windows program I use now.
I suggest for Canadian income tax on Mac or Win you try TaxFreeWay.
It has worked lie a charm for me, much better than Quicktax.
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It's a fine line and perhaps I'll get flamed for it. In the context of this subject, I think the end-consumer is as much to blame for basing their purchases based on price alone and not factor in things like usability, quality, durability, service, etc..
I think that kind of mentality has really screwed up a lot of things.
A documentary called Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags detailed what consumer thinking like that did to the New York garment industry.
Like you, I don't mind paying extra for quality, but I don't want to pay $150 for X, when I can get the exact same as X for $100.
I prefer to look at the long term cost of an item. My 2007 iMac is still going strong, while my Gateway laptop purchased a few months earlier became annoying to work with years ago.
A documentary called Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags detailed what consumer thinking like that did to the New York garment industry.
Like you, I don't mind paying extra for quality, but I don't want to pay $150 for X, when I can get the exact same as X for $100.
I prefer to look at the long term cost of an item. My 2007 iMac is still going strong, while my Gateway laptop purchased a few months earlier became annoying to work with years ago.
my sons 2006 IMAC s still rocking.
You bought a gateway ??
whats a gateway ??
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my sons 2006 IMAC s still rocking.
I have a 1999 iMac which still works just fine. I never use it, because I have many more machines which are newer and far more powerful, but it does look pretty on top of a desk.
Did the hardware change, or the software?
My HPs and Dells continue to work great - because I threw Windows away and installed Ubuntu.
The software. When I used Windows I'd reinstall everything every year to keep performance up. I never did that on this one and it slowed down over the years. Once my children started using our Macs, they don't want to use this, they noticed a difference in performance. :-) The only time this would be used vs a Mac is instead of the G4 Mac Mini. It's brutally slow running Flash sites.
my sons 2006 IMAC s still rocking.
You bought a gateway ??
whats a gateway ??
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Yeah I bought one. Back in 2006 I was still a hardcore windows user, although I bought a Mac Mini to see how sites I'd created looked for Mac users.
If I were to buy another Windows laptop, I think it would be an AlienWare laptop like my nephew has. Although I can't see any reason to do that, unless Parallels or VM-Ware stopped working.
If only Intuit would produce a decent Mac version of QuickTax, instead of their "In order to provide better service to Intuit Canada's Macintosh customers, we are recommending that former QuickTax Macintosh customers use QuickTax online to file their income taxes."
Quicktax is the only Windows program I use now.
It's the panel Apple rejects that makes Apple the best - Apple.
You bought a gateway ??
whats a gateway ??
Yeah I bought one. Back in 2006 I was still a hardcore windows user, although I bought a Mac Mini to see how sites I'd created looked for Mac users.
If only Intuit would produce a decent Mac version of QuickTax, instead of their "In order to provide better service to Intuit Canada's Macintosh customers, we are recommending that former QuickTax Macintosh customers use QuickTax online to file their income taxes."
Quicktax is the only Windows program I use now.
I suggest for Canadian income tax on Mac or Win you try TaxFreeWay.
It has worked lie a charm for me, much better than Quicktax.