Originally Posted by
JoeZiehmerMacMan
See what you mean though by pricing but in economics also there are hundreds of lies. When people stop listening to common sense and start buying an overpriced operating system they forget how to be creative. In my High School class for computers my teacher always made the suggestion for us to think outside the box and since I have done some small laptop and even an old iMac 500 (mine) the cost for both systems makes them to high a cost. My mathematics professor advised us that Windows is not always the way of the future after sparking debate over which is better. In fact several people switched and have gone to Dell after seeing the quickness of a few laptop's which I worked on to have it installed over Windows. People used to get scared and say free does not always run better but right now with Mac OS X and Windows Vista trying to battle each other out on the open market it is great to see my friends switch over. :guitar:
Left CD's and people gobbled them up and that is how it started. Although the college is under contract with Windows I learned any mention of it can make those talks get harder. Here is the thing though if Windows kept it restrictive for so long as did Mac then why is Linux suddenly exploding without any holding back? I did trade my laptop though so no more live displays (screen froze and cracked) and since then have gone to using my iMac and now it is great seeing former diehard Windows users getting a breath of fresh air into their systems. Without having any disputes with on board RAM, Draft-n technologies, and various others. This iMac I am using had no Operating System and it cost to much now compare the speeds that I reach to Windows and then watch as a Vista computers moves slowly even with 2 gig of RAM, 250 gig HD, and a 3dfx gaming card doing basic functions. The games look nice such as Sims 3 but does it really run that well? My fiancee uses Windows and her's is a Dell which does well running Vista while my old Acer suffered from it. No Draft-n in PCMCIA SLOT, no 2 gig Ram, and a 250 gig HD created confusion XP and Ubuntu 8.10 ran it great before the screen broke. Its just amazing to have the same speed and function from an old iMac from the early 2000's; somehow my fiancees ran it nicer then mine did... with the same CPU and processor speed. Sorry, for the long rant but it felt good to transform long time Windows users and Mac users! Even got my fiancee running FireFox which is a victory for me.