In this house, there is no Mac newer than a 1GHz eMac and a 600MHz 14" iBook. Both of them run Panther, and they are my wife's machines for her academic work. They do 'just work', and that is the totality of her interest in and need for them. I do my 'work' on a bunch of 500MHz iMac CRTs running Jaguar to Tiger.
The other however-many Macs in the house include about 30 68K Macs and 20-odd 'G2' and G3 Macs. Every one of them is upgraded within its capacity to be so without turning it into an even mildly FrankenMac. To those who ask 'Why have so many?' I answer 'Because I can'. bigD accurately fingered the difference between a hobby and a home factory.
Were Quadraman to preface his pronouncements with 'I think that ...', or 'In my opinion ...', or 'It seems to me ...', his alternative take would be as unexceptionable as the 'I don't need to justify the Macs that I have or what I do with them' school of thought. Hobby, fixation, pastime, escape, business or pathology are all equally valid in a value-free context. Chacun a son goût.
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The other however-many Macs in the house include about 30 68K Macs and 20-odd 'G2' and G3 Macs. Every one of them is upgraded within its capacity to be so without turning it into an even mildly FrankenMac. To those who ask 'Why have so many?' I answer 'Because I can'. bigD accurately fingered the difference between a hobby and a home factory.
Were Quadraman to preface his pronouncements with 'I think that ...', or 'In my opinion ...', or 'It seems to me ...', his alternative take would be as unexceptionable as the 'I don't need to justify the Macs that I have or what I do with them' school of thought. Hobby, fixation, pastime, escape, business or pathology are all equally valid in a value-free context. Chacun a son goût.
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