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[Tom Boucher <trekkie AT nomorestars.com>]

On Jan 29, 2004, at 8:46 AM, <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>

I'd agree with you, if it wasn't a $3000 computer turned into $350.

I mean if he took say a G4 he got off eBay for a few hundred & 
converted it that's one thing.

But he had his parents (mistakenly) spend $3000 on a system that he 
then TRASHES.

That'd be like getting a Lexus and stripping out the engine and putting 
in a Honda Civic engine because there is more mod kits available for 
it.

It's just wrong.