[P1] 17" Laptops

[Remell Boyer]

I really didn't expect this kind of fevor over a little bit of critism.  I was just stating that to me, your wintel stories sounded a bit, exaggerated.  I also realize that the mac is the platform of your choice and I appreciate your zeal.  It seems that many of you have left that platform never to return, and have no recent experience in it.  I do, I follow both platforms because I find them both very interesting.  Being on both sides of the fence, I can see each platform for what it is, and give no preferencial treatment to either.  
Numbers are numbers, my friends.  and 3500 bucks is still 3500 (or however much you have to pay to get an equivalent machine, but pointing out that up macs have just barely cracked high end pc specs) bucks.  If you compare features, then you will see that the mac platform over the years has realized that the way it was doing it was wrong, and has continually moved over to pc style hardware.  And still no multi-button mouse?
But thats not the point.  The point of my post was to show a little bit of contrast, to just show a counterpoint to the way you were discussing the windows machines.  They are different no doubt, but I don't believe that your experiences are true of every user.  The scales are just not that unbalanced.  What I have read a horror stories, and thats all they are.  Everything usually falls in the middle.  Happy Mac users, Happy PC users =).


On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 23:39:31 -0500
Brian Pearce <bpearce at cloud9.net> wrote:

> 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
> 
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