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"Apple Tax" Report Backfires On Microsoft
Ian Lamont writes "A Microsoft-sponsored report that describes a hidden "Apple tax" has fallen flat among the technology press. Roger Kay's report (PDF) compares various PC and Mac configurations, and claims an all-Apple household's costs would add up to an extra $3,367 over five years. Tech columnists and bloggers have slammed the comparisons and claims made in the report — even Mac-baiter John C. Dvorak calls it propaganda. However, some Mac fans still see a pro-Microsoft press conspiracy. Even if the comparisons are questionable, Kay's report and the accompanying television ads have clearly struck a nerve among the Mac faithful."
Meanwhile, Linux users everywhere are scratching their heads.
Guns, SUVs, cigarettes, fatty foods
SUVs are stupid because they are inferior to the alternatives, and SUV owners are stupid because they were convinced as much by advertising. Cigarettes are stupid because they represent a health hazard to everyone around you (and even nicotine is itself carcinogenic -- when your body breaks it down, free radicals are produced.) Fatty food and guns, however, have to be egregiously misused before they harm anyone other than the user.
People should not be permitted to use more than their share of resources no matter how rich or poor they are. We all live here.
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OS X is a very good alternative to both Windows and Linux
Personally, I regard OS X as a(n expensive) mash-up of disadvantages from Windows ( proprietary software, at the whims of a company ) and Linux ( lack of support from hardware and software manufacturers ).
The disappearing pencil trick. Let me show you it.
least 670 if not more on your PC.
My Gaming PC, recently retired to running media center...athlon2800 overclocked, NVIDIA6800, NF7-Sv2 MOBO, 80GB hard drive, 2GB ram....have had it for well more than two years and would play any game on the market. You can put that system together for under $200 now adays easy.
CS: It is all sink or swim...oh and did I mention there are sharks in that water?
Since Windows 7 is theoretically the OS that "catches up to OS X" you need to add the upgrade price for that as well.
And of course, an OS X user could have skipped any of those updates if desired... a number of people skipped 10.4 and went straight to 10.5.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Cause Windows users go to places like Majorgeeks.com and get the Top10 list of software that everyone usually needs, what is this myth that Windows users go searching long and far for software and that it is a time consuming OS.
Nobody wants to type in commands to get their software when you click to install, anyways I would have to go get the special Open-source definition book to get what the words mean in their relationship to what they actually do. Is gimp gonna make my software act like a gimp? Does anyone actually still use IM anymore?
Anyways, you really only need K-lite coded package and getfirefox.com; I think Google is kind of the apt-get equivalent to what Linux has. Click, double-click, click Yes, click Next, click Finish. That was so painful and time consuming?
Automatic updates come with a lot of this software or you can get a program like Sumo which will search all your programs for updates, your average user behavior doesn't give a shit anyways and will run the old version forever.
Has anybody used Windows around here lately in the last 7-10 years?
Downloading manually is much harder...
You have to search...
You have to somehow verify that the site you found is a reputable source of the app and not a scam site (try searching for openoffice, there are scam versions out there).
All of the sites need to be up, if the main site isn't up you might not be able to see a mirror list. If a site is down, you wont get that app.
You have to wait for the downloads to complete because the next step requires manual intervention.
You can also pin versions down, in gentoo you just edit the package.mask file to prevent the installation of newer versions, i imagine other systems have an equivalent... That said, most package repositories won't update versions, just apply bugfix patches to existing versions, so there is very little reason not to take the updates.
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Leaving your computer running with unsaved work unattended for several hours is... um, how to put it mildly... doubleplus-unsmart, regardless of platform/OS/whatever you're using, and any other factors. Really. There's no excuse for doing that sort of thing.