Being a former automotive technician, I feel that I can comment fairly intelligently on this topic. There is such a world of difference in different makes and models of vehicles that there is no way that in 6 years all the hardware will be the same. For example, if you were to open the hood on a new Toyota and compare that with the underhood of a new Dodge, for example, there is nothing at all in common. Even the alloys used are completely different. The point being, there will always be differences on every concievable level between different car manufacturers.
So what it is that I want to know is, like a Mercedes (or any other German car for that matter), what do you do when after 3 years of use, your Mac starts to leak oil? All joking aside, everything that I've been reading up to this point, every post on this topic have revolved around Windows, OsX, and Linux. What people fail to realize is that there are MANY options for OS's on the i386 architecture. I suppose that you could call me a fanboy for wintel hardware due to the fact that it is so cost effective. And if you can run a stable, fully functional operating system on inexpensive hardware, why spend the money on more? I would love to own UltraSPARC workstations, but that's not cost effective, therefore, I run wintel stuff. The point being, it's not about hardware, all the arguing on this topic have revolved around the 3 prevalant OS's today. Let us not forget the others, e.g. FreeBSD, OS/2, etc. Argue on.
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Being a former automotive technician, I feel that I can comment fairly intelligently on this topic. There is such a world of difference in different makes and models of vehicles that there is no way that in 6 years all the hardware will be the same. For example, if you were to open the hood on a new Toyota and compare that with the underhood of a new Dodge, for example, there is nothing at all in common. Even the alloys used are completely different. The point being, there will always be differences on every concievable level between different car manufacturers.
So what it is that I want to know is, like a Mercedes (or any other German car for that matter), what do you do when after 3 years of use, your Mac starts to leak oil? All joking aside, everything that I've been reading up to this point, every post on this topic have revolved around Windows, OsX, and Linux. What people fail to realize is that there are MANY options for OS's on the i386 architecture. I suppose that you could call me a fanboy for wintel hardware due to the fact that it is so cost effective. And if you can run a stable, fully functional operating system on inexpensive hardware, why spend the money on more? I would love to own UltraSPARC workstations, but that's not cost effective, therefore, I run wintel stuff. The point being, it's not about hardware, all the arguing on this topic have revolved around the 3 prevalant OS's today. Let us not forget the others, e.g. FreeBSD, OS/2, etc. Argue on.