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Re: PC or Mac?
- Subject: Re: PC or Mac?
- From: Brian Hippel <bhippel@knology.net>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:41:42 -0600
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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Will this thread EVER end????
in article slrna5j5cd.21.byron@b60z27hbb464i.ab.hsia.telus.net, Byron Q.
Desnoyers Winmill at byron@b60z27hbb464i.ab.hsia.telus.net wrote on 1/31/02
12:07 PM:
> In article <u5inccansk8m64@corp.supernews.com>, Matthew Russotto wrote:
>> A Mac user has the same choices and has for years. It would be silly
>> to buy a new Mac to run Linux or a BSD variant, because a PC which can
>> do the same is available more cheaply, but the option is there.
>
> Are you calling me silly? ;)
>
> I did buy a Macintosh for the express purpose of running Linux,
> partially because my last experience with PC hardware was horrendous
> (after the second year of use I was replacing disfunctional pieces every
> 6 to 12 months and upgrading was prohibitivly expensive after the fourth
> year -- so where is the PC advantage there). Another reason was the
> format of the iMac (believe it or not). The third reason was the
> possibility of running Macintosh software under Linux (via Mac-on-Linux).
>
> Silly, maybe.
> Byron.