Posts by Kevin O'Donnell

Apple banishes Macs to old folks home

What Maintenance?

The point you missed is that macs can last for a long time without maintenance. I still have an 8 year old G3 iMac which runs mainly iTunes and Firefox on OSX 10.3 perfectly adequately albeit a little slowly. My point is that it has NEVER required any maintenance, all I have done is add a bit more memory. I have a G5 but I can't bear to part with the G3. You've listed probably ALL of the problems that have come up over the past few years, and Apple have always fixed them. Know any windows pcs that old which still work, and can use XP? I don't.

Apple more closed than Microsoft

Closed?

The difference here is that Apple's package is so good and so reliable. I have never had a reason to read any technical documentation, for example. I like the way it all just works 'out of the box'. Then again, I'm not a nerd, just a user. I would also point out that you can run Windows on a Mac, but NOT vice versa. Is that monopolistic practice?