Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?

[Alex Tweedly]

xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:

>A bit OT but you'll see my point...
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>>The theory is that Wintel (or at least Windows) users need to upgrade
>>more frequently (because every new version of Windows is more bloated -
>>apparently new versions of OS X have been the same or even more 
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>efficient).
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>>If you had 2 users each buy a machine at the same time
>>Windows users upgrades his machine every year
>>Mac user upgrades his machine every 3 years
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>That's in theory... my 5 year old PC still runs and doesnt' need any 
>updates in 
>terms of server use. But as far as most of my
>pc aquaintances, most of the time we just swap a cpu, swap a hard drive 
>and
>DONE... No need to buy a new PC. Just like old mac accelerators (but much
>cheaper, much better supported too (driver and support wise). 
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I'd suggest you (and most of your acquaintances) may be more 
technologically capable than the average PC buyer (including the average 
corporate IT department)

>Last time i did this (to improve GTR's speed), the mother board cost 50$ 
>and
>the CPU+ram 400 more. Done... No 1000+$ hardware expenses... And i got
>room for lots more drivers (compared to a minimac)...
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And in any case, the purchase of a new mb+cpu counts in someone's 
marketshare ...

>So are you just searching for justifications or excuses to stay on the mac 
>or what?
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Not me, I don't need those excuses - haven't been on a Mac for 12 years.

Though it wasn't "my" theory - I was merely giving the gist of the 
argument used on both the Slashdot article and somewhere else (CNET 
maybe ??)

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Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net

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