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• This isn't contradictory
  2004-05-28 10:54:44  jayscheuerle [View]
  
  
  Plenty of people have sports cars or motorcycles that require frequent maintenance and they still love them.
  
  I like OSX, but I don't like the fact that it suddenly doesn't read my memory cards or recognize my camera. I'll figure it out when I have the time, but it's not making me happy acting like this. Still, it's not like I'm going to run out and buy a Windows box.

• Actually
  2004-05-27 06:08:43  Justin Gehtland | [View]
  
  
  I didn't try to convince her to "buy" Linux, just install it (Debian -- free download -- burn and churn). However, I only did that because I thought I could do that and rehabilitate her aging Thinkpad without shelling out the $$$ for a new laptop.
  
  When it became clear that this would not be a viable solution, we went with the Mac. It was the obvious choice.
  
  Oh, and I DO love Panther.

• Confusing
  2004-05-27 05:45:11  jwenting [View]
  
  
  seems to me you need the gist of this story bashed into your brain more solidly still?
  
  Let me summarise:
  he's had problems with the supposedly infallible Mac yet he still doesn't hold it against Apple.
  He's had problems with Windows but doesn't hold those against Microsoft.
  
  Both platforms (and every other out there) have their strengths and weaknesses, no matter what the zealots might be willing to admit (after all, Macs NEVER fail you if you believe the zealots, and neither does Linux (guess what, we had a Linux server at work go down so hard here a few weeks ago the entire company couldn't work for several hours until it was restored from a previous backup and some people lost a day of work).
  
• Confusing
  2004-05-27 22:13:53  xerobase [View]
  
  
  > seems to me you need the gist of this story bashed
  > into your brain more solidly still?
  
  oh, and i suppose you're just the wanker to do it, eh?
  
  > he's had problems with the supposedly infallible Mac
  
  And who said it was infallible?
  
  > He's had problems with Windows
  
  What, no descriptive adjective for Windows?
  
  > Both platforms (and every other out there) have their
  > strengths and weaknesses
  
  Ah, your summarising is like a fresh spring shower. Thank you so much for bashing it into my brain more solidly still.