Forum: Bug Report and Feature Requests

I don't believe you can delete threads, only individual posts. In other words, you can delete your individual post in a thread, but that's it. What's more, even if you did, you'll usually be quoted by other people.

The same happened on the GG Forum.

As used, reconditioned computers get less and less expensive, they will get like toasters. People used to repair them, now they toss them out and switch to the next one.

That's almost true now for laptops, it will never be true with desktop PCs. Desk top PCs are too modular. It's probably been over a decade since anyone actually tried to repair an individual PC component.

Desktop PC repair is a matter of replacing faulty component rather than the whole machine.

And if your PC is so old you can't get compatible components with the latest tech, Wipe windows off of it and install one of the Linux distributions on it.

Unless you are doing high end gaming, there is no reason why a PC couldn't be kept operational for 15-20 years.

Heck if you have the ingenuity to make things fit in ways they weren't necessarily meant to you could take a 20 year old case, strip it and build a new computer in it from components that is only 1 generation behind for < $500.

If a used computer is $100 and a new MAC is $3,000, you can get 30 used ones for the same price.

You're equating any computer with Windows on it with a Mac. They're not equivalent. No pun intended but you're comparing Apples to Oranges.

A mac at $700 (brand new Mac Mini) is worth more than hundreds of PC boxes to me. It's the software, reliability, peace of mind, and ecosystem that make the difference.

For example, on the Mac, generally, you don't get malware unless you go out of your way and purposely do something spectacularly stupid. And even then, if Apple knows about this malware, then it simply won't run on your Mac.

I've been running on macs for the last 25 year (since 1990) and never had an instance of a file becoming corrupted for example.

Mac's virtual memory system doesn't grind a hard drive into oblivion causing it to fail prematurely.

Do we need to mention the Windows registry? It's a universal failure point for Windows systems and yet even in Windows 10, they still have that piece of crap.

Yeah, Macs are like other computers in that sometime components fail, but your work is orders of magnitude safer than on some windows box, even the expensive ones.

Macs value is most clearly realized by looking at the price of used Macs. Used ones are still generally more expensive that new Windows boxes.

Huh? Are you writing english here?

None of the above made a lick of sense to me.

The one person I really trusted wouldn't use Apples but for his work construted boards for fairly standard homemade PCs and then connected them somehow to the 660,000v power distribution cables - successfully. You can't do that with a Mac

With the right equipment you can connect any computer to any voltage power to use it as either a power source or for sending network signals down or both.

I've used computers since the mid 1970s and every version of MS software since MS-DOS 2 up to Windows 7 on a regular basis. Tried Win 8 and Win 10 and don't like them. Don't like the crappy way Windows go out of their way not to secure the operating system, and out of their way to make software incompatible with other versions. Which is why I use Linux which is based on Unix which is what Mac and all major systems and servers are based on. Unix / Linux / Mac are higher security, faster performing, and use less space and resources than any version of MS Windows since Win 3.11.