On Mar 6, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Celia Lawton-Livingstone wrote: > > Here in the UK I would estimate 90 - 95% of all computers are PCs. > In fact until I got this one I had never actually seen a Mac in > real life. I had always considered them an over-priced poor cousin > of the PC, but then I was judging them by PC standards... MS > indoctrination? I now realise that Macs are far more durable and > long-lived than PCs and even the old ones are pretty powerful > compared to a PC of the same era (I definately need to know more > about the chip and motherboard architecture)... try running XP or > Vista on a 1999 built PC... huh, I think not! I have a Mac 8600 circa 1996 with a G4 CPU running at 450 MHz (2 generations above the CPU it shipped with) a Gig of RAM, 5 internal hard drives and running OS X.3. Yes they did and do make some durable machines.