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- From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <14878@claris.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 19:43:04 GMT
- Article-I.D.: claris.14878
- References: <920541.2A74E391@cmhgate.fidonet.org>
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- In article <920541.2A74E391@cmhgate.fidonet.org>, Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
- >
- > mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:
- >
- > > deal. At home nobody pays me but I have to pay the computer. So for me the >
- > 386 is the better deal. Were is the problem?
- > MS> IOW, your time is valuable to your boss, but not worth much
- > MS> to you, right?
- >
- > I think he means that he doesn't mind doing the work necessary to get a 386
- > box running, much in the same way that many people don't mind grabbing a
- > wrench and fixing up the family car, or fixing their own plumbing or
- > electrical problems, etc., etc. Whereas the boss would just call in an
- > electrician (or other specialist), the guy at home generally rolls his own,
- > usually for lack of hard cash to do it otherwise.
-
- Your analogy breaks down, Adam; with the Mac, the boss doesn't have to call
- in an specialist--except in very unusual circumstances.
-