[ale] mac v pc

[aaron]

> on Monday, April 08, 2002, Stephen Turner wondered: 
> > linux on mac vs pc, how does that differ? is the
> > performance greatly better? is it only the kernel that changes?

On Tuesday 09 April 2002 19:20, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I believe you get less speed for more buck.  I'm not sure.  The only
> thing that has kept me and most of the intel world out of Mac is cost
> of entry.  When I can pay $300 for 1GHz machine I just can't see paying
> 2,000 for a mac.  Someone here could prove me wrong.

There *is* the one plus that, despite the cost, an absolutely minimal 
portion of your Mac purchase goes to the criminals at M$ (ignoring that 
M$ owns a significant interest in Apple and Mac buyers get further 
M$hafted with licensing for Internet Exploiter [et al]).

Buying any "over the counter" x86 based system pretty much guarantees 
that Micro$haft extracted their pound of extortion money from a 
manufacturer or distributor somewhere up the line from you. Even if a 
winblows OS isn't  installed on the system, the SOP for M$ OEM contracts 
is to require winblows be used for all final x86 system QC testing.

On third though, I guess about the only way to avoid the M$ penalty is to 
build your x86 box from components.

 ;-)
Oh, yeah... you also have the option of installing Linux on a 25 to 50 
mhz 68040/68060 Amiga!
  ;-)

peace
(after justice)
aaron


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