Despite the price, it appears to have got through to Joe and Jackie Blogs that the initial outlay is more than compensated by the simplicity, longevity and overall troublefree-ness of owning an Apple. Or should that be a Mac?
Oh, and you don't need to spend another hundred on a good antivirus - OR DO YOU?!
ESET is just about to release ESS for the Mac (so far only the Business edition) - despite it apparently being already possible)
Even businesses are being tempted over to the less-dark side.
What prompted me to write this was a customer-friend who has been running Ubuntu without intervention for the last three years (!) but had finally needed updating to get Facebook's uploading areas to work. So I dutifully upgraded to the latest Ubuntu version (which required a repartitioning and reinstall and copy home folder and resize partition and etc etc long story.) Due to repartitioning, space was getting low, so I cloned up form 40 to 200Gigs successfully. Then relaised the CD drive was a reader which was going to make burning tricky. Burnt one CD and the drive died, just about to replace it and the customer pops in to make sure I hadn't done any work on it - as she has just waltzed home with a new iMac... say no more.
Except now I will be supporting their Mac for free, instead of supporting the Linux for free.
Maybe this is why Microsoft has stayed ahead - users are used to paying for support and repairs!?
Now just try and get an Apple Authorized Dealership...
What are your experiences?
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