[the_old_crowd] Re: Retro-game (OT)

[Rebecca Bowen]

>Kneasy
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>If you're not a Mac user - tsk, tsk, tsk.

>Geoff:
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>You may be encouraged to know that I am seriously giving thought to
>upgrading to a Mac in the near future - not because of your
>exhortation - but because my eldest son is
>perverting/corrupting/persuading me against PCs. (Doesn't take much
>doing - I still hanker after the good old days of teaching when we
>standardised on Acorn Masters).

Rebecca, chortling:

During the Yankee swap at work week before last, the hottest item to play 
for was an Atari 7800 (remember those?)  Mind you, those of us participating 
in the swap are bonafide geeks of the first order who play with and develop 
new technology all day long, every day. :) The guy who ended up with it took 
it home - his son went wild over it and their family played tournament 
Pacman all this past holiday weekend, practically ignoring the new Xbox 360 
the father gave the son for Xmas.

As far as the Mac vs PC argument, they both have disadvantages - but I'd 
take a PC myself.  Why?  I can always keep Windoze on one partition and a 
blistering Red Hat hack attack on the other ;)  Both GE, who I worked for 
prior, and my current employer eliminated them from the IT environment -  in 
essence, Apple hardware support (replacement of failed hardware under 
warranty) sucks bigtime, and we had loads of metrics to prove it with more 
than 2000 Mac laptops and desktops in our midst at our current company 
alone. Maybe it's different for home use, but for an enterprise environment 
with a 3 year lifecycle (which is really good), that kind of service blows. 
Least if a part fails on an IBM or Dell, I can have it from them the next 
day, rather than 3 weeks.

Just sayin'...to each his own :)

Rebecca