From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2005-10-05T23:46:02+09:00
Subject: Re: OFF Topics :: PC-laptop or Powerbook

On 10/5/05, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Perhaps I'm just lucky, but I think people should take more
> responsibility for their systems and not blame a certain commercial OS
> for _everything_!
>
> Don't get me wrong; I'm no one-eyed Windows fan.  I dig Linux and drool
> over every OSX-based product I see.  But I like to see things kept in
> perspective.

I agree. I was a pretty rabid anti-Microsoft person back in the
Windows 95/98 days. The reason? Those operating systems were very
unstable and crashed a lot and generally caused headaches. But since
Windows 2000 and XP I haven't had too much to complain about. I have
had a Dell Inspiron 5150 at work running Windows XP and the only
problem I've had in about 2 years is the hard drive crashing. In that
case I was able to recover almost everything (using a Gentoo Linux
boot CD) and Dell had a new hard drive shipped within a day.

While I like OS X and a lot of the Apple philosophy, I'm not convinced
the cost/benefit ratio is at an appropriate level.

My next purchase will probably be a Windows laptop that is compatible
with Linux, so I can set up a dual boot system (though I imagine I'd
spend most of my time in Linux.) If I could just buy OS X and install
it I would; but that won't be happening for a while, if ever.

Ryan