On 5/28/05, Anders Johansson <andjoh@rydsbo.net> wrote:
A comparable Dual AMD 64 is as expensive or more expensive the a Dual G5 of the same power so again... the cost buy in argument is crap.
Oh I am sorry, I do beg your forgiveness. All the masses who went out and bought dual Opterons for their desktops could have gotten dual G5s for the same price. My my, what a mistake to make, how could I have been so stupid
Don't be snide. You know damn well what I was talking about. And as far as the masses go.. should I follow? Should I be a lemming and buy an eMachine, use Outlook..etc..etc. No. So don't use that "everybody does this" or " everybody thinks this" arguments. Not gonna work., And as far as your honda/toyota comments... I own a Honda and a 17 Powerbook.. guess if I bought a substandard Dell POS that I could have that BMW. Wow! What a thought! :P
And when you have the Mini, iBook, iMac and eMac out there.. again for what you get .. it's not expensive.
Most people can't buy on a cost/performance argument, most people have to look at actual money spent
Most people suffer from cranial-rectal inversion.. should I care? If yes, then when asked I will educate them in price/performance and help them get the best thing for their cash... and I'm not convinced a 3Ghz blast furnace is needed to run a browser and mail client. But whatever.
But then again I don't give a shit... let people use what they want but don't use that niche market shit... it's the same argument that Windows user use against Linux .. "well, until grandma can use it.. it's a niche player".
No, not really. Until it gets a significant percentage of users it is, and yes, linux on the desktop is a niche player still (linux on the server isn't).
Based on the fact that my close to elderly parents use an AMD Athlon running SUSE 9.1 and like it.. I don't buy the grandma argument either. I gave my father my old TiBook (Mac) and you know what.. he liked KDE/OpenOffice better then Aqua / MSOffice. Go figure. In any event I'm not going to argue anymore about this subject. It's like trying to chew on ones own teeth.. doesn't work. And it's way off topic. -Ben -- "There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend religious faith."