Re: iMac 24" Installed Software

In article michelle-373D27.17052024072009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Michelle
Steiner at michelle@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 7/24/09 8:05 PM:

In article <C68FBCC0.41129%nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com>,
Nick Naym <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote:

So, you really think that when someone asks if (say) iWork "comes
with" the Mac, he/she absolutely gives a rat's ass if it's
factory/store preinstalled, or user-installable from an included (in
the box) CD/DVD, a CD/DVD that will arrive in the mail, or via an
electronic download?

Yes, I do. And you seem to believe that all software comes with the Mac
because it can all come in the mail, or be downloaded.

It would never occur to you that perhaps the real thrust of the
question is whether the purchase price includes the software,
regardless of how the software finds its way onto the hard drive?

Purchase price has nothing to do with the availability of the iWork demo
because you can download it to a Windows computer. (Of course, you
can't run it on Windows, but you can download it from Apple's website to
a Windows computer.)

Further, if the person does not have an internet connection, then
anything available only over the internet does not come with the
computer.

But you just can't stand to be wrong about anything, no matter how
trivial, right?

_Me_? You are simultaneously an extremely bright and knowledgeable person as
well as one of the most stubborn I've ever run into. (I discovered the
latter when discussing "Michelle's Rules of Grammar" way back when.)

My only point here was simply that the OP asked about the software that
"comes with" the iMac. It struck me that Mike's response to Gerry regarding
the thrust of the OP's initial post -- Mike's assertion that the OP was only
asking what was _installed_ -- seemed a bit too literal.

If you can sit there and read JJ's post, Mike's response, and then Gerry's
comment attempting to clarify what "comes with" the iMac, and still insist
that "comes with" rules out everything except what's in the box, then it
certainly appears that it's not me who "can't stand to be wrong."

I do agree, however, that it is a rather trivial point which, in and of
itself, isn't worth the virtual ink it took to raise it. What's not trivial
(which was the only point I was attempting to make) is the approach to
responding to a question: It just struck me that it requires more to provide
the answer a person _really_ is asking than simply literally reading and
responding to the person's words removed from _that person's_ context.

If I'm guilty of anything, I'm guilty of not clearly making my intended
point.

--
iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) ? OS X (10.5.7)

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