Levi Bard wrote:
>>I find that, if I'm willing to shop around, I can get equivalent
>>hardware and a more pleasant physical interface for less money out of
>>PC-compatibles. Maybe that's just me, though.
>
>
> Actually, the area where I've found this not to be true is laptops.
> Recently, apple laptops have come in line with x86 and amd64 laptops
> in terms of price/perf. Or maybe it's that the rest of the laptop
> world has shifted its prices toward apple's, who knows. But laptops
> have never really been commodity hardware the way PCs have.
>
Er, yeah. So, in that case, I can get equivalent hardware and a more
pleasant physical interface for equivalent money out of a PC-compatible
laptop. It's still a net gain for me to choose the PC-compatible over
the Mac. Heh.
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