Star One-Third of Slashdot Readers Find the Mac 'Very Tempting'
Linked by Jim Vanaria on Fri 4th Oct 2002 21:25 UTC
Apple When it comes to using computers, it used to be (and still rings true today) that most people find the Mac platform to be either loathsome or lovable with few spectators taking middle ground on the issue.
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Brad. I disagree.
by Darren on Sat 5th Oct 2002 00:02 UTC

It's not the "mac experience". It's not directly the price either. Then, "what is it?" you ask.

It's jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. It's trading one proprietary nightmare for another. It's getting too tied down to one source for hardware.

I didn't take the poll (didn't see it). But, add me to the list that wants OSX so bad they can taste it. But, I'm stubborn. And, either Jobs is going to move to Intel hardware or I'm not going to run OSX. Many people say that Apple is in the hardware business and that porting to i386 would be the end of Apple. I disagree with that, too. I think Apple could get into the software business and continue to sell hardware at a lower margin. Overall, I think their bottom line would improve.

Darren