Re: Guru needed

[Robert Myers <rmyers@inetone.net>]

At 12:22 AM 8/10/98 -0600, you wrote:
>At 10:35 PM on 8/9/98, Robert Myers wrote:
>
>> Caution:  Audi content totally absent.
>>
>> I need a Windoze95 guru before my better half gets mad at me again...
>
>The note on the software box read, "REQUIRED: Windows 95 or better."  So I
>bought a Macintosh...
>
>No Audi content here either, but the Macintosh is to computers what the
>Audi is to automobiles.  Any car or computer will get you to your
>destination, but one doesn't own an Audi or Macintosh because one has to,
>it's because we truly enjoy the "drive" getting to our destination.

There is one small difference, though.  When you buy an Audi you are not
totally locked into 100% Audi replacement parts.  Other suppliers produce
parts which will work for most DIY repairs.  When you buy a Mac you become
locked into the fortunes of Apple.  In particular, there seems to be very
little software other than Apple produced software for the Mac.  With
Apple's long history of short sighted "Let's shoot them in *our* foot"
business decisions I'm hesitant to lock myself into the Apple camp.  

Hmmmm.  Y'know, that does sound a bit like AofA when ya think about it some.


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