Re: PC or Mac?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <slrna5j5cd.21.byron@b60z27hbb464i.ab.hsia.telus.net>,
Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill <byron@b60z27hbb464i.ab.hsia.telus.net> wrote:
>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).

Don't you think it's premature to judge a whole line of computers from
just one single specimen?

As a counter-example I can point to my 14-year old PC where nothing
ever has been broken.  Yes I've upgraded it from time to time, not because
I had to but because I wanted to.  Naturally it won't run the latest
software -- but it _does_ _still_ _work_ just as well as when it was new!

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