On 2009-01-23, Dan Abel > wrote:
> In article >,
> notbob > wrote:
>
>> On 2009-01-23, Stan Horwitz > wrote:
>>
>> > of that, the cost to buy the full featured Vista is an outright rip off.
>>
>> Only a true Mac zealot could make a statement like that with a straight face.
>
> That hasn't been what I've been hearing. The very best comments I've
> heard about Vista personally have been things like "it's OK, I can get
> what I need". I understand that if new computers weren't actually
> selling at a premium if they had XP instead of Vista, it was certainly a
> selling factor. My son was looking for a new PC, and I think he kept
> looking until he could find one with XP on it.

Whoosh!!

The height of absurdity is a Mac owner making despariging remarks about the
hight cost of another platform.

nb