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Wired News, in its Cult of Mac column, reports that the world may be noticing something most Mac users have realized for most of their Mac experience.. Wired has links to articles which show how sudden this change in opinion has been, under the following captions:
Macs will save you money
Macs are good for business
Less is more
Closed is good
Apple is the darling of Wall Street
Macs can run more applications
More …
I have sold 4 Macs over the last 15 years, always for more than it would cost for a new equivalent PC. All my Macs were “open”. MY first Mac, a IIsi, had a SE30 compatible bus slot in which I put a Applied Engineering FPU riser card that also had a right angle bus slot , to which was fitted a Micron 24 bit video card providing millions of colors long before that was popular (Sony 1304 25 dpi 24 inch monitor). I sold one of my children for scientific experiments. I was the first on my block to swap out the crystal to bump it to 25 MHz. Every Mac thereafter I modified. I could’ve run LinuxPPC, BeOS or Mac OS. Now you can run anything x86 on your Intel Mac, if not in a virtual environment. I have always bought 3rd-party hard drives, mice, and optical disc drives for a lot less. Now Intel Macs can swap almost anything.