[P1] 17" Laptops

[Brian Pearce]

> Everyone has a story like this... The *only* reason Macs are not more 
> widespread is people don't believe what we say about the Macs... when 
> people like whoever it was here say things that may be interpreted as 
> 'Macs have as many problems as PCs'... well, they are engaged in 
> FUD... and people buy another PC...

Oh, come on now; have you ever read the reader reports on Macintouch or 
MacFixit? The fact of the matter is that there's *plenty* that can go 
wrong and cause frustration for the individual user on either platform.

(And not everyone has thoise experiences. It took me more time to 
configure a WiFi card on my wife's Dell laptop, from her employer, than 
it did for my iBook, and I find the interface is confusing because I'm 
not as familiar with it, but the process went smoothly and the 
installation was a success.)

There are many, many reasons that Apple only hold a small share of the 
larger PC market, but I doubt this is one of them.

BRIAN/bpearce at cloud9.net