On Oct 13, 4:48*pm, John Smith wrote:
On 10/13/2011 4:19 PM, David Barts wrote:

On Oct 8, 5:42 pm, *wrote:

That's not the business Apple is in; they sell a lifestyle of form of
substance.

Actually, they sell reliability and ease-of-use. Macs tend to "just
work" in most cases, including many cases where Linux or Windoze
require endless geekery to get something to work.

Reliability and ease-of-use come at a price. As someone who's an ex
systems support person and completely sick of systems geekery, that
price is worth it to me. If the price isn't worth it to you, don't buy
Apple products. Simple.

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David Barts
Seattle, WA.

I rarely keep a machine beyond two years, then it gets the "pass me
down" to someone ... or the electronics recyclers where they pay me the
grand price of ~0.36 a pound ... video cards, memory and other
components going into the junk drawer for passing out to those in need
... I can't remember a computer ever failing me in that time, nor any
component other than a power supply, now and then, which was abused and
drew too much power through.

Reliability encompasses more than just service lifetime of the
hardware.

Though that's largely irrelevant to my point. Again, if the price
premium for a Mac isn't worth it to you (and it sounds like it's not),
then just don't buy Macs (and it sounds like you're already not buying
them). No problem; my feelings are not hurt in the least by someone
making a different choice than I would have.

I was merely responding to "dave"'s inane comment that the only reason
anyone would purchase an Apple product is for fashion or lifestyle
reasons.

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David Barts
Seattle, WA