Is it crazy to buy a MacBook?

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 12/9/06, David B Teague <davidbteague at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Apple is a religion, and in that religion, I am an atheist.  (I
> recognize I may be "cutting my nose off to spite my face" as my mother
> used to call it. I hate Apple Computer. )
>
> I spent $3000 in 1981 dollars for an Apple II+. They came out with the
> IIe in 1982. Had I bought the IIe,  I could have continued to use of
> about 1/3 of the hardware (Disk II floppy drives and monitor) and they
> added salt to the wound by making ALL software they released after the
> IIe run ONLY on the IIe and IIc.  I found a 3rd party 80 column video
> board and upper/lower case keyboard. I went out of my way to find hacks
> for the software to use it  on my II+ and I have not bought anything
> from Apple since.

So let me see if I understand... You're upset about the transition
from one machine to another in an antiquated and long discontinued
line 25 years ago when there was *no* organisation or any such thing
as "standards" in the personal computing world?

Hold many grudges?

-- 
Chris

"George 'Macaca' Allen is like the place kicker that blew the winning
field goal at the Super Bowl.  He's why the Republicans lost control
of the Senate."