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ravuya:
Win98, whenever I would place a non-recordable CD in my CD burner (I had two cd drives, one burner and one reader), would unmount my D harddrive (causing a bluescreen), crash my box (requiring a restart) and occasionally fuck up the mount order so much I'd have to go into the BIOS and (manually) tell the box the D: drive was still there.

Truth is, I've never had problems like this on my Macs, although I've had some interesting SCSI conflicts and such (one of which turned my LC into a wonderful strobe light.. damn dirty contacts)

Calum:
wow! that win98 thing sounds great! i'd pay a couple of hundred dollars for something that could do all that!
<sarcasm mode off>

Seriously though, i wasn't saying windows was good, i was saying:

PCs are cheaper and more customisable than macs.

Macs are more CPU economical and reliable than PCs.

I was also saying What does windows have to do with a mac vs PC argument????
What do PCs have to do with a Mac vs windows argument???

It really *is* about time people DIS associated the two terms, (windows) and (personal computer), from each other in their minds.
There are tons of OSs you can run on both architectures, so get over it, is what i say.

Sorry, sorry, sorry, i know i am just blowing off steam, but until this whole mac vs pc thing gets blown out of the stone age, nobody will think about stuff that's actually pertinent!

Mac vs PC arguments actually help Microsoft by this token...

psyjax:
This is a good point.

Lot's of computer newbies, and even people who have been around for a while find it difficult to diveorce windows and PC's as most would find it hard to divorse MacOS from the Macintosh.

I think windows uses this to their advantage as new users automaticaly default to thinking in windows terms when purchasing a PC.

Hell, I even slip up sometimes.

Phantom Menace:
I remember always thinking Windows = PC when I was a newbie. I'd always talk smack to PC users because I thought their whole Hardware/Software was $hit. Boy was I wrong! Makes me glad I found *nix as a M$ alternative. Of course, I'm glad I found Mac OS before anything else...  :D

ravuya:
PC = CISC-based = Less done per clock cycle = slower than PowerPC RISC

Now that we've established that (while the CISC-based PC boxes are more customizable, I don't prefer them speed-wise), I can continue to comment on this wonderful post.

Oh, and Windows NT will run on Macs, there's a PowerPC build on the CD. Though I don't know anyone who's sadistic enough to run Windows natively on a wonderful little PowerMac.

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