Re: Hi

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:05:09 +0100, pd.news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Pd)
wrote:

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

McFanboi no, M$Fanboi no, hardware engineer (so therefore PC) yes,

Who do you think designs the guts of a Mac?
A civil engineer? An architect?

What are you on? You taken Rollys meds? Who do *you* think I think
designs the insides of anything? Oh, (I think I see now) was it *my*
mention of 'hardware engineer' (with respect to *me*) that got you
all confused with someone else being a 'hardware design engineer' ..?

Um, you said so were a "hardware engineer (so therefore PC)". Hardware
engineer does not imply PC user. You might as well say you're a hardware
engineer so therefore have blue eyes. It doesn't follow.


You might be forgiven for thinking that Mac internals are designed by an
artist, since they exhibit a beauty and economy of line and form never
seen in the PC world,

No, been inside a few and they all look pretty much the same to me. It
was annoying trying to get the everso (ie never seen any so small on
any laptop before) screws back in the bottom of the 17" PB the other
day as the lid 'magnet / catch' kept nicking them off my magnetic
screwdriver? Couldn't quite see the point in most of them being that
small especially considering they were mostly inside the battery
compartment and only seen by a tech ..?

I suspect it's to stop the non-techies getting into the case. The sort
of people who undo screws using one of their two Woolwoths screwdrivers
(or possibly just a knife) are not the sort of people who should be
digging around inside computers.


a PC is bother

You got that right. ;-)


easier and cheaper to fix (and back to my point) and for me and millions
of others, fun to build / upgrade.

It may be millions who find it fun to build and upgrade, but those
millions are still in the minority. Most people buy a box and never open
it, then buy a new one when Windows is too full of malware and viruses
to be any use.

-zoara-


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