Hm, our first computer was a Mac SE so our family grew up with Macs. At one point where my mother somehow got the impression that PCs were better/cheaper and was going to get a computer for her office (she could get any computer she wanted), she opted for a PC (Dell/933mhz). Using a PC at work and a Mac (G3/450) at home, I believe she's essentially sold on the Mac and her next computer will be one (trying to get an MDD now).
Though to a lot of people who do not know much about comptuers (but actually use computers) and are not prejudiced towards the mac or pc, they basically do not care about the differences, as long as it gets the job done.
Of course we are the evil platform who trashes wasted data instead of recycling them.
One of my oldest and dearest friends is a big PC person. When I was time to buy a new computer, she lobbied hard for me to ditch the Mac- she sang the praises of her Compaq laptop (which had made it's third trip to Compaq to be fixed), and she's now singing the praises of Dell's fabulous customer service. (which is true- they haven't been able to fix her husband's tower, but they have fed-exed motherboards and sent people to the house. Of course, he's lost all of his data and can't find his install CD of Office, but oh well)
Meanwhile, I'm soldiering along with my key lime iBook SE, with the RAM I maxed out myself (thanks to help from these boards) and two OS upgrades.
Except, of course, at work, where my IBM keeps me on a first-name basis with the help desk.
They talk all the time about Steve's RDF, but I think there's some serious Gates Kool-Aid being drunk out there
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Bingo !
"Ignorance is Bliss"
You've nailed the corner stone of Bill gates success.
It's not based on product usabilty, function or design, but on keeping the masses blind & dumb as to what other choices are out there.
Bit like drowning out noise but creating a sound wall of " white noise ".
Though to a lot of people who do not know much about comptuers (but actually use computers) and are not prejudiced towards the mac or pc, they basically do not care about the differences, as long as it gets the job done.
Of course we are the evil platform who trashes wasted data instead of recycling them.
Meanwhile, I'm soldiering along with my key lime iBook SE, with the RAM I maxed out myself (thanks to help from these boards) and two OS upgrades.
Except, of course, at work, where my IBM keeps me on a first-name basis with the help desk.
They talk all the time about Steve's RDF, but I think there's some serious Gates Kool-Aid being drunk out there