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["Wolfe, Joanna" <joanna.wolfe AT oup.com>]

I think Andy is just plain stupid, you would think at his age he might
understand the concept of returning a christmas gift.
At the cost of the G5 he could have gotten a dual processor server
class wintel.
Of course, it still would run window, but hey! he could install Linux,
wait, no, he just wouldn't understand.
joanna

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> From:         zman
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> Sent:         Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:51 AM
> To:   Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject:      Re: [internetworkers] About the dumbest thing I have
> ever seen...
> 
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 geschwin AT email.unc.edu wrote:
> > <Devil's Advocate> I know it might be hard for some of you out
> there 
> > to fathom this, but there actually **are** people out there who
> PREFER 
> > a Wintel machine over a closed hardware platform. Also, there are 
> > people who prefer to have a machine that has an operating system
> and 
> > software that they are already familiar with rather than have to
> learn 
> > a whole new system. So he simply modified that machine to get 
> > something that he wants. Besides, this was certainly not the first
> 
> > time that a Mac has been modded into a Wintel machine. Calling 
> > somebody dumb for modifying what he got into something that he
> wants 
> > is being a bit harsh there...</Devil's Advocate>
> 
> Bill I entirely understand your arguements. I really do. But every
> single 
> one of them just leeds me to think that no matter how you spin it
> "dumb is 
> dumb"...
> 
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