"RD Sandman" wrote in message
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"Scout" wrote in
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"John Smith" wrote in message
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On 10/14/2011 1:36 AM, RHF wrote:
On Oct 13, 7:00 pm, John wrote:
On 10/13/2011 5:34 PM, Howard Brazee wrote:

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:09:37 -0700 (PDT), David Barts
wrote:

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.

How can that be? Don't you know that anybody who buys an Apple
product is an irrational Fanboy? If we weren't fooled, we would
all make the same choices, right?

Like I say, outside of academia, I just don't see that many MACs
... my niece has MACs, but she works for them ... her kids have PCs
... as far as I know, those are the only MACs in my whole family
and group of friends ... but I am sure there must be some around,
in number, somewhere ... when I have worked for attorneys, I have
seen some used, but then, mainly by attorneys who didn't know how
to use a computer ... and yeah, I think they just carried them as a
status symbol! Or, to play solitare, card games, match three
games, tetris, etc. on the airplanes ... lol

Regards,
JS

Ah Yes an Apple/MAC Computer {Case/Luggage}
-says- "I Am An Apple/MAC Person !" [Status Symbol]
http://www.globaltang.com/images/l/A...MAC%20Accessor
ies/M108.jpg -and-alas- you are merely a little nothing 'pc'
http://rlv.zcache.com/hi_im_a_mac_ba...65z7tpy_152.jp
g
.

... as I just pointed out, that figure, most likely, don't not
represent all the PC's which are built-up from components ... like
most gaming computers are ... the apple share of market is obviously
a lot smaller than that being quoted ...

Anyone needing state-of-art/specialized-use obviously has a custom
built PC ...

Good point. Certainly the source I just used only talks about computer
sales for complete systems. While in reality a lot of PC are component
built either by the consumer or by local computer stores.

Most of those, I would assume, would be PC based not MAC.

Actually, I think it would be exclusively PC, since I don't believe they
sell the primary components of Macs on the retail market. Might be able to
do something in the salvage market but that's really a matter of
reassembling a computer rather than building a new one from unused parts.


Which would explain why I don't see as many Macs as would be indicated
by the fact that about 4.5% of all PC sales are Macs. Because PC sales
of those built up from components aren't counted. Which would mean
every system I have wouldn't count because ALL were component built.
Yet, they are active computers.

I am now down to three......going down by another after this weekend.

Replacing with premade, or just old and unused?

"Scout" wrote in
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"RD Sandman" wrote in message
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"Scout" wrote in
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"John Smith" wrote in message
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On 10/14/2011 1:36 AM, RHF wrote:
On Oct 13, 7:00 pm, John wrote:
On 10/13/2011 5:34 PM, Howard Brazee wrote:

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:09:37 -0700 (PDT), David Barts
wrote:

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.

How can that be? Don't you know that anybody who buys an Apple
product is an irrational Fanboy? If we weren't fooled, we
would all make the same choices, right?

Like I say, outside of academia, I just don't see that many MACs
... my niece has MACs, but she works for them ... her kids have
PCs ... as far as I know, those are the only MACs in my whole
family and group of friends ... but I am sure there must be some
around, in number, somewhere ... when I have worked for
attorneys, I have seen some used, but then, mainly by attorneys
who didn't know how to use a computer ... and yeah, I think they
just carried them as a status symbol! Or, to play solitare, card
games, match three games, tetris, etc. on the airplanes ... lol

Regards,
JS

Ah Yes an Apple/MAC Computer {Case/Luggage}
-says- "I Am An Apple/MAC Person !" [Status Symbol]
http://www.globaltang.com/images/l/A...s/MAC%20Access
or ies/M108.jpg -and-alas- you are merely a little nothing 'pc'
http://rlv.zcache.com/hi_im_a_mac_ba...47765z7tpy_152.
jp g
.

... as I just pointed out, that figure, most likely, don't not
represent all the PC's which are built-up from components ... like
most gaming computers are ... the apple share of market is
obviously a lot smaller than that being quoted ...

Anyone needing state-of-art/specialized-use obviously has a custom
built PC ...

Good point. Certainly the source I just used only talks about
computer sales for complete systems. While in reality a lot of PC
are component built either by the consumer or by local computer
stores.

Most of those, I would assume, would be PC based not MAC.

Actually, I think it would be exclusively PC, since I don't believe
they sell the primary components of Macs on the retail market. Might
be able to do something in the salvage market but that's really a
matter of reassembling a computer rather than building a new one from
unused parts.


Which would explain why I don't see as many Macs as would be
indicated by the fact that about 4.5% of all PC sales are Macs.
Because PC sales of those built up from components aren't counted.
Which would mean every system I have wouldn't count because ALL were
component built. Yet, they are active computers.

I am now down to three......going down by another after this weekend.

Replacing with premade, or just old and unused?




Neither. It is a good Toshiba laptop.....just passing it on down since I
no longer use it. I have two newer ones.

--
Sleep well tonight.........RD (The Sandman)

Witnessing Republicans and Democrats bickering over
the National Debt is like watching two drunks argue
over a bar bill on the Titanic.....