Regarding the whole computer flamewar stuff that sprouts through this group:
For many users, especially those in college, getting a computer and all
related apparatus can be an investment as big in scale as getting a used car. If someone on a limited budget has spent four digit dollar amounts on a system,
and you try to tell them how inferior their system is, it isn't going to be an
argument that they are going to listen to very well. (Unless, of course, they bought their computer at a store that has a thirty day money back guarantee, and those thirty days haven't haven't been used up yet.)
I remember when I got my first PC-compatible... for all intents and purposes, Acme Inc. would have sold me a more reliable computer (even if the Acme computer would have had a dynamite detonator attached to the RETURN key.) Though I heard warnings from people on what a lemon this machine was, I tried to rationalize away these arguments to come up with a justification to spending x number of dollars on the computer. It was not until I realized that the store would issue me a refund and I had my accoun
t credited that I was able to admit that that particular PC was a piece of ****.
Before you start into a Mac vs. PC or PC vs Amiga or Amiga vs. PC or PC vs. Mac vs. Amiga argument with an owner of another machine, find out the following information:
1. Is it too late for the person to return their machine from where it came
from?
2. Is this a machine that they have to keep for a long time? (Due to cost, etc.)
If you have answered 'yes' to either of the above questions, stop your flamewar right then and there. :-)
