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Originally Posted by terminal pharmacy

by a second hand 3 yr old pc and see how that stands up. my powerbook is 2 1/2 years old and is solis as

if you were to buy my 8-year old pc you'd have one of the finest machines ever built on this planet. ok, not "one of the" in the fingers of a hand, but certainly i can claim to be near the top 5% of the population or something. ha ha. not sure. the motherboard is 3 years old though and it fucking rocks.

of course my computer has gone through plenty of transmogrifications, to the point that (i think) not a single original component remains, like heraclitus's river, but that's not the point.

the point is that, whereas all macs are macs, not all pcs are created equal. sure it's easy to take potshots at $300 pcs from walmart, but i've built mine with great love & care & i can tell you it for the price my box kicks any mac in its arctic white ass. for the price, that is.

now, i would instal OsX if in it if i could, but i can't. osX is a great little operating system, i do enjoy it in spite of its limitations, and i am tempted to buy a mac, and i think i want to, but i do feel ripped off by mac's prices and limited hardware choices. which is the reason why i quit having a mac in the 90s, in the first place. if mac allowed me to put their software on any hardware, just like win-doze, i would do it in a new york minute. i think the day may be near after they had the good business sense to switch to intel processors.

my 2003 ibm x30 still kicks fucking ass, by the way, better than any 4-year old mac laptop i've seen.