Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 19:24:09 -0700 From: B&D <NO_SPAMnopsamCOM> Subject: Re: A Macintosh Computers and A Saab?
On 4/12/03 9:37 AM, in article b79fh2$c69p6$1nopsam52899.news.dfncis.de, "Grunff" <grunffnopsam.com> wrote: > B&D wrote: >> How many people out there own Mac computers AND own a Saab? >> >> I am curious. A sales person told me that in many ways Saab was the >> "Macintosh Computer" of the car world. Wanted to find out if there was any >> truth to the statement. > > Well, I love Saabs, but I *hate* Macs. To me they represent all > that is bad in personal computing - form over function, dumbed > down to the point of being almost useless, and very poor value > for money. Wow. I didn't find the value argument working for us - after all, when your wife and about 50% of your income is generated on a Mac - well, I figure you see where I'm going. Anyway, if you do an apples-to-apples comparison, you will find that Apple Mac isn't that far off from Intel based - it is just that the low end of Intel is fleshed out much better than Apple. Whizzy industrial designing, yes, but it seems to have the computing power to back it up. Not sure why you figure it would be useless - can you elaborate? Interesting that a Saab owner would feel it that way - after all, Saabs have never been inexpensive cars - and if you want inexpensive functionality - there is always Korean and other Asian cars... (I mean no disrespect here - I am curious at this dichotomy)