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dc[3]
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Yeah, I know I am an optimist...
Still, there is little reason for them any more.
DC
Kerry Galloway <kg@kerrygalloway.com> wrote:
>The platform wars are over? Thank God, finally! I'm sure that's certainly
an
>enormous relief for all of us.
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>- Kerry
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>On 7/27/08 11:18 PM, in article 488d64cd$1@linux, "DC"
><dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> In the early 1990's at the univ. I worked at, the IT guys tried to
>> ban macs. If they found one in your dept. they would ridicule you
>> and tried to enforce a "no mac" campus standard. They would talk about
>> market share and comparisons to VHS vs. Betamax were tossed about
>> freely.
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>> In the mid 1990's, my wife's dept head actually banned macs from the dept.
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>> Both the IT director and my wife's dept. head got canned, thankfully,
>> but more importantly, let me be the first to declare the platform wars
>> over.
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>> Apple is now #3
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>> http://www.dailytech.com/Apple+Claws+Its+Way+Closer+to+the+T op+in+Retail+PC+Sa
>> les/article12409.htm
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>> Who'da thunk?
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>> So, let me say to all the geek doomsayers and PC nazis
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>> Bite Me. You were wrong all along. Get a life.
>>
>> Apple has developed into the BMW of comp. companies. My new
>> 8-core could not be more elegantly designed and built. Putting in
>> more RAM was like working on a beautiful sports car and Leopard makes
>> both Vista and XP look like bathroom grafitti in comparison.
>>
>> Cheap? No, but worth it, and there really is no competition if you care
>> about the things it offers.
>>
>> Oh, and a guy from Apple spent hours with me sorting out my ethernet
>> troubles.
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>> Nothing against PC's, but the platform wars are over. You pays yer
>> nickel and takes yer choice.
>>
>> DC
>>
>> oh and with VM Fusion, I can put XP over here and Leopard over there
>> on the same machine and the same monitor. Or on mon. 2 of an extended
>> desktop.
>
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OT The platform wars are over...
By: dc[3] on Sun, 27 July 2008 23:18
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