From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2016121215172642817-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > No, I disagree. I'd only save around $500-ish on the deal, buying a new pc   
   > laptop and new software vs replacing my mac and keeping the software I   
   > have.   
      
   There is always Linux for a pc.   
      
   > Not gonna work too hard for that money.  Certainly not worth spending   
   > months and probably years relearning and converting.   
      
   Not at all...Microsoft Windows, which has Always Sucked since the very   
   beginning, is modeled after crApple's OS...the blind leading the blind, so   
   you may find it won't take much time to get used to at all.   
      
   > Stuff that costs more than that is always breaking on my wife's car, and I   
   > just pay the bill.  Everything on her car is expensive :-)  Come to think   
   > of it, one of the headlights failed on band girls Toyota and that cost   
   > $500 to replace.  Each wheel bearing in wife's Aveo is $500 to replace   
   > .... each .... each wheel costs that to repair at the Chevy dealership.   
      
   Don't go to the STEALERship!   
      
   > Heck, they wanted $700 to service the throttle body on that thing last   
   > month.  And $1000 ( I kid you not ) of other repairs the car was in   
   > critical need of.  I was lucky to get out of there with my shirt :-)   In   
   > the end, a $3 can of throttle body cleaner cleared up the issue. The other   
   > critical items ????  I told the service manager the car wasn't worth that   
   > to me. Its factory warranty just ran out, and if it needs that much, I'll   
   > push it over a hill and buy her a big gas guzzling pickup truck. Maybe I   
   > already had this rant here, but it still makes my blood boil.   Gonna find   
   > her a rusty used pickup that is so oversized it'll have a step for her to   
   > climb into the drivers seat.   
      
   What ever happened to the  practice of Thanking the Ripoffs by PUTTING THEM   
   OUT OF BUSINESS???   
      
   > Yep, I'm tired of ever smaller, ever more expensive cars.  Can you tell ?   
      
   Who needs small car AND Big Ripoff!   
      
   > I woke up thinking about pc prices today. I really don't understand how   
   > Apple gets away with charging that much, if in reality, 8 or 9 hundred   
   > dollar pc laptops will do the same work as well.  That's just crazy. There   
   > has to be more to it than hardware costs. Some is certainly snob factor.   
   > But even then, I think a lot is how childishly easy Apples are to run.   
   > You don't need to understand how they work at all to use them .... ok,   
   > pretty much.  If you're really determined to not get it, then you can't   
   > even work an Apple. My point is, I don't have much understanding of pc's   
   > operating systems at all. If something went wrong, I'd be dead in the   
   > water.  I've no one to ask, and you know it'd happen an few hours before a   
   > job.   
      
   Try out a pc running Windows...that's made for Idiots too, and based on   
   crApple's os.   
      
   > Now, someday I might switch to something else.  Studio One looks great.   
   > But if I do, it would be by running parallel systems for a few months as I   
   > learn and convert.  That would be doable. But switching cold turkey if   
   > this one fails .....eh .... scarry ......   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   Only way to find out is to try a pc.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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