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August 14, 2010 - 6:16 am - by Roger Kimball
Lee Reynolds
2010-08-16 16:11:47

M.A.C.I.N.T.O.S.H

Most
Applications
Crash,
If
Not
The
Operating
System
Hangs

In all seriousness though, Macs are not bad computers per-se. My objection to them has always hinged upon their proprietary nature. As a computer scientist, I’ve no need for a point-and-drool interface. What I do need is maximum flexibility, compatibility, speed, and easy replacement of component parts for the minimum price. I build systems, I don’t buy them. Apple has, at least since the end of the Apple II era, always worked to make their systems expensive, incompatible, and difficult to get parts for. Every time I’ve ever been told that they had turned over a new leaf in this regard it has turned out to be untrue. I’ve heard similar stories about the left, and we all know how that invariably turns out. I simply avoid their products on principle alone.

But the great thing about a free society is that you don’t have to.