Re: PC or Mac?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <3c508e78_3@news3.prserv.net>,
Tom Zuchowski <tzuchow@attglobal.net> wrote:
 
 
> "Barry Allen" <TheFlash@fast.net> wrote in message
> TheFlash-ya02408000R2301021854290001@news.earthlink.net">news:TheFlash-ya02408000R2301021854290001@news.earthlink.net...
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>>> I go for many months at a time without seeing ANY problem on my
>>> 98SR2 system.
>>
>> Good for you. You're the exception not the rule.
> 
> I rather strongly believe that you are mistaken about that, at least
> as far as 98SR2 users are concerned. I know a lot of computer hobbyists,
> and the only people I know who regularly have problems are Athlon users
> who do a lot of hardware and software tinkering with their homebuilt
> machines.
 
Do they have more, or less, trouble than Mac users who do a lot of
hardware and software tinkering with their homebuilt Mac's?  :-)
 
>> You obviously don't spend a lot of time in the Macintosh world.
> 
> Good heavens, no. I chose my path back when an equivalent Mac cost
> THREE TIMES as much as the 486 I bought as my first PC, and I never
> looked back.
 
I chose my path much further back than that: from the very earliest
8088 PC's there was always a socket for the 80(x)87 number cruncher
chip.  This was essential to me since I wanted to do some number
crunching (yep, computers _can_ be used for comptations too!!! :-).
Early Mac's had no way to add the correspnoding number crunching chip
of the 68K CPU.  I think this option didn't materialize until the
Macintosh II appeared -- and that machine was considerably more
expensive than merely three times the price of my homebuilt PC.....
 
Times have changed though - Mac are nowadays much cheaper, and the
Mac community should be grateful to the PC for that!  Without the
price competition from the PC world, the Mac would most likely
still be quite expensive.
 
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