There's a 2.3GHz celeron compared to the 1.25 GHz G4. The hardware you're talking about has the same capacity hard disk and RAM. Linux can't compare with my Powerbook in terms of desktop user experience. I've used it on the desktop at home for about 8 years. And what will developers target? (This requires Longhorn Home, with some bits of Longhorn Server, but is incompatible with the display driver in Longhorn Tablet.) Who wants to bet that Microsoft will continue this silly strategy with Longhorn? I can see it now: Longhorn Home, Longhorn Professional, Longhorn Advanced Server, Longhorn Lite, Longhorn Media Edition, Longhorn Tablet Edition, Longhorn Pocket Edition. the proper comparison is OS X would be to purchase XP Professional with bits of Windows 2003 Server (total cost, mucho dinero!). Of course, you can always get freeware/shareware or commercial add-ons, but that ups the price of the OS. I can't pick and choose-Microsoft does it for me and I don't get a say in their selections! I think Microsoft's OS strategy sucks, because it generalizes: I need Win2003 Server Standard Edition-or is it Enterprise Edition?-to get some of the services I need, but need XP (Home,Professional) to get the desktop bubblegum that my kids want. Now, most of those 'advanced' services are turned off by default, but they are there if you want to use them, and don't cost anything (other than the space they take up) if you don't ever configure them.

OS X comes with web server (Apache), SSH server (where's that in XP anything?), a SQL database, and many other things that you can't get without XP Professional or even Win2000/2003 Server. There is NO 'OS X Light.' There's just one O/S to serve them all. 'What? They're charging $500 for a computer?! Too bad they don't have a $250 computer, or I'd buy one.'Īpple has got this one right. Wake me when they sell an AFFORDABLE computer.'

I can build my own computer for $10 and a pack of paper clips. 'Man, that eMac isn't cheap enough for me. 'Man, that $1000 iBook is too expensive, but if they had a $700 Mac, I'd buy it. If they had a $1000 laptop, I'd buy one, but NOT SOONER NO OMG.' 'Man, that $2000 PowerBook is too expensive.

You can't call something cheaper if you're stealing part of it. How much computer can you buy for that last $50? Sorry, but if you're going to complain that a $500 isn't cheap enough, I'm going to say you're a biased troll who thinks pirating an OS makes a computer cheaper for comparison purposes. 'Apple need to sell a cheap computer.'Īn upgrade to Windows XP Professional is $200 alone. I can build my own for half the price of a Mac mini, and until they can match that they won't be getting any of my money, and I'm sticking with Windows. As do I, but I really thing Apple need to do something about getting a cheap machine out.

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