Comments on: Windows 95 to Leopard: part one

By: Shaun

Shaun — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:13:03 +0000

No I wasn’t- I was trying to make the point that I started with Windows 95 and have progressed through Windows until the recent change to Leopard:)

By: Statto

Statto — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:48:48 +0000

Shaun
Is that right – W95 to Leopard? Are you (were you) still running W95????

By: bobbd

bobbd — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:41:48 +0000

Value for money is in the eye of the beholder. Or maybe I should say the wallet. When you buy a Mac, you don’t just buy a piece of hardware, or even a better piece of software. What you buy into is a philosophy. I read a management book by Guy Kawasaki who was a product manager and Mac evangelist in the 80s. The credo was and is “Do the right thing and do things right.”

What you pay for is that little bit extra. Remember the Zen of Palm. Same idea. You know how the iPhone just seems to work (regardless of whether you’re an iPhone fan). Same idea.

As one of my co-workers, who is a software developer and uses many operating systems from Windows and Linux to big-box UNIX and even openVMS, says, “Once you go Mac, you’ll never go back.”

Bob

By: Alloafan

Alloafan — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:50:59 +0000

When is she next coming north???

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:29:51 +0000

It costs £799 in Comet anyway. My wife asked the sales guy if he could do a discount and he offered £50. She then haggled some more and he came up with the silly price we paid. She then asked for a free case and he went to speak to his manager- that was one haggle too far:) I rarely haggle, but she is a master at it- she got a Nissan Micra a few years ago for almost £2,000 off the asking price!

By: Alloafan

Alloafan — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:24:28 +0000

Shaun, I both applaud and envy you. Applause, because so many people are either in one camp or the other. Envy, because I can’t for the life of me see where you got such a discount from!

I have been doing some sums over the past few weeks in the desperate aim of one day convincing the powers that be (read: wife) that buying a Macbook is the ultimate in sound investment. I think when you factor in being able to re-sell in 3 or 4 years’ time for a reasonable sum of money, then it begins to make sound economic sense.