Re: Bet nobody thought this would happen in Apple Vs Psystar!

Martin Krischik <krischik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

RiKN schrieb:

Apple buyers leave their brains at the door sometimes. No - most of the
time. Unless you are complete shopping moron you could replicate these
specs for less than half of what Apple wants.

The specs - maybe. But [...not other things...]

Also, it is very narrow-minded to think that everyone must have the same
requirements and priorities as you (RiKN) and that anyone who has
different ones must be a moron. I might even describe that position as
moronic, but I think I won't. :-)

Purchase cost and specs are far from the only things important to
people. Martin mentioned "woman acceptance factor", which in this case
is also related to some other factors; my iMac is very good about
keeping the cable clutter on my desktop down (and there's quite enough
of such clutter already). There are little matters like support. There
are environments where the hardware cost is almost negligable compared
to other costs involved in having a computer; that was certainly the
case at the job I retired from a year and a half ago. Probably the
biggest costs there were related to network infrastructure and system
administration.

I've done the "put my system together from components thing". I've done
it quite a lot, in fact. Not for Macs, but for lots of other systems.
I've even done the hobbiest thing of building a minimal working system
from the chip level. It had no disks or anything complicated like that;
it wasn't a practical system for useful work, but I could type in on a
keyboard and display on a monitor; the home-brew graphics card (well,
breadboard) was the most ambitious part.

I've done quite enough of that to recognize that there is concrete,
measurable value in having someone else nicely integrate a system for
you. If you don't understand that value, that doesn't mean that people
who do understand it are morons.

Now people who post advocacy material on non-advocacy groups... :-)

--
Richard Maine | Good judgement comes from experience;
email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgement.
domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
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