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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (116536)	4/10/2002 6:39:13 PM
From: pcstel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

i agree. i would rather pay apple to make sure it works. it is not worth the hassle of buying a system that requires a call to tech support. I figured this one out about 9 years ago, while spending four days trying to install a CD ROM and sound card into a 386DX66. My youngest son bought a CD-ROM Game and wanted to play it. Could not get enough base memory to run the game and the mouse driver. Which the game required. I moved everything to HIMEM but was still 15kb short with my existing mouse driver. I spent 5 days asking friends for mouse drivers until I found one small enough. In the mean time, my son had taken the disk to a friends house and played it on a Mac. I started claculating how much my time was worth, and how much time I spent trying to make the PC do what I wanted to do.. I found out that the Apple was much cheaper, (and easier on the blood pressure), in the long run. For the consumer, the MacOS is unmatched. Now some fo there software titles which I use almost daily like (Final Cut, and DVD Studio Pro) with the Pinnacle CineWave card are just unmatched. Even by Avid! Not that I think it is the Mac OS is the best OS out there. I give that award to SGI's (Unix derivative) IRIX. The XFS file system of IRIX goes unmatched! (Even though SGI released the XFS file system for Linux about a year ago). And so it goes, PCSTEL