Windows 7 will only run 3 applications at once

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Impulsivity said:

@cueil in what world is windows ever more user friendly and superior? I mean did you ever even USE Windows 3.0? It was horrific. My dad, at the time, ran the education center for Illinois and so had access to a large number of computers of all stripes and I can say unequivically early versions of windows were just awful. The first even functional version of Windows was Windows 95 which came out in 95 "obviously". From System 7 in the late 80s on the Mac OS was very usable and worked great; even the first macs were at least on par with windows 95 other then being black and white (and having VERY limited Hard Drives and RAM).

The idea that there was some call for windows because the mac was hard to use is just insane, really. That's like saying the Internet Explorer was called for because Netscape was a bad browser (it certainly wasn't) or people hate Google and so need Windows Live Search (which they are now paying people to use and even still not gaining traction).

As to paying 999 for a used laptop, macs cost more used (and new) but their total cost of ownership is far lower. If you swap your computer every few years you get much higher resale value with macs, which makes the ocmputer as a whole less expensive. Farhad Manjoo did a great piece on that where he compared purchase price and resale value of various computers and found macs a few hundred dollars cheaper. I have never sold a mac I bought for less then a few hundred dollars below what was retail when I got it two years prior. I bought a G5 mac pro for 2300, sold it for 2000 2 years later, ditto for a more recent mac pro purchase.

It really is like buying a luxury car instead of a kia. I mean if you have a 2004 Lexus it's still worth over 50% of what you paid 5 years later while a 2004 Kia sells on the junk car lot for about 1500-2000 bucks retail blue book. I mean sure the kia cost only 15,000 new, but it was a total loss in value just a few years later (and for those years you're driving a friggin Kia).

 

  Article here http://machinist.salon.com/feature/2007/11/07/mac_price/index.html

Windows 3.0 was very bad... 3.11 was a vast improvment, but even then I stuck mostly to MS-DOS 6.2 and DOShell.  The problem I have with Apple and the mac lineup is that I vastly prefer building my own system.  And at the rate PCs move now it's just not feasable (in my mind) to spend a grand on a laptop.  If you are going to use it for basic stuff then a much cheaper standard laptop will work.  Such as the HP with 4 gigs of ram and 120 gig HD for 800 bones.  I can see where you're comming from on the resale, but Laptops are not something I see as a investment of 2 years... when I was interested in the computer arms race it was for gaming so a desktop would last me a couple of years before I'd upgrade.  I use to time it with the new release of CPU or video cards that way I could pick up a video card that was 500 bucks 6 months ago for 120.  Pricewatch.com was always my best friend