[CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%
Jerry Franz
jfranz at freerun.com
Fri Oct 8 22:29:02 UTC 2010
On 10/08/2010 03:25 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> On 10/8/2010 4:09 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> But OS X can legally only run on Apple (tm$$$) systems, where Linux can
>> run on *anything* and anybody's inexpensive hardware.
>>
> Apple hardware is fairly priced when compared on quality. Yes, there
> are cheap POS PCs that compare favorably on features with Apple hardware
> at a lower cost. I've used many such. They often break more readily,
> or fail to satisfy on some other level. There's more to a PC than spec
> list.
>
[snip]
Apple runs commodity hardware that is essentially identical to everyone
else's - just priced 3X more.
Hardware quality **IS NOT** the difference between a Mac and everyone else.
--
Benjamin Franz
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