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Pros and Cons of Switching From Windows To Mac
It's been a couple of years since Apple ran their Switcher ads — but folks are still making the switch. Rockgod writes to point us to his list of pros and cons after he switched from Windows to Mac recently. From the article: "It took me a long time to be convinced that Windows 3.1 was a better program launcher than X-Tree Gold, but it happened eventually. Since then, I have been a sucker for every upgrade — 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000, XP... I bought the cheapest Mac available, a Mac Mini with a single-core Intel chip and the minimum of RAM — 512 MB. It cost me AU$949. Since plugging it in, I have barely used my $3000 Windows desktop... All this time later, I have almost exclusively switched to the Mac."
If you like to get a great value on your hardware, like to buy your own and tinker, and think several k for a high end computer is too much you will not be happy in the mac world.
You do have a point in that the people in China making the parts don't care if they are high end $3000 ones, or low end computer parts, they still make their same poverty wage.
Oh You POS
Mod me down if you will, but I stand my point; this is the most substance-less post which tried to make a point out of statistics I've seen. If you have any data, please share with us and with Kofi who might be interested. Like, have you been to africa, china and india lately? and I don't say New Delhi, Hong Kong or Casablanca, but those places where the majority of the world lives... you know that 70%(*) of world population that makes your shoes, phones and diamonds? you don't really think those guys each have a phone in their house, or else you just don't know about the real world... I've been to jamaica and haiti and it was a hell to find a single phone outside my hotel(**), and it was richer than most countries in africa and philippines.
I mostly hate people who haven't seen the world at all, think that everyone but them (or america anyway) are wrong, and who don't even have arguments to back up...
(*) yeah that was made up.
(**) yeah ask that guy in the street, not the business man but about anybody in the places where the majority lives. There are other places than Varadero you know outside of the USA...
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