Linked by alcibiades on Wed 10th May 2006 19:40 UTC
I started out as a Mac user in about 1985 in a world which will be totally unfamiliar to almost all readers of OSNews. You wrote out your stuff by longhand, and a secretary typed it on a word processor. If you were lucky and able to manage it, you could dictate it. But you did not dictate into a dictating machine, because these were big heavy and expensive. You dictated it directly to someone who could 'take shorthand'. If you had a PC, it ran DOS. You looked for your files, and moved them around, started applications, one at a time, from the command line, and the command line was not pretty, it was green on black.
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RE: If I'm looking to purchase a product...
by dr_gonzo on Wed 10th May 2006 23:18
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Member since:2005-07-06
I like my Mac because of the OS. I use it for college work which is mainly Java programming but I also write shell and perl scripts. I also write papers on it, browse the web, listen to my music collection, IM, watch films etc. People buy Macs for a whole bunch of reasons. People do stuff with their Macs that people do with their PCs.
I find it ironic that people criticise Mac owners for being elitist and then slag off Mac owners for being slaves to fashion or for choosing form over function.
RE[2]: If I'm looking to purchase a product...
by twenex on Thu 11th May 2006 00:42
in reply to "RE: If I'm looking to purchase a product..."
Member since:2006-04-21
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2005-07-11
...and you attempt to sell me a "lifestyle," I'll be politely showing you the door (although not before expending some considerable effort to remove my boot from your ass).
Kudos sir! Very well stated!
Although, to be fair, I've noticed a distressingly similar evolution of the Linux userbase over the last 4 years or so.