Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Mac OS X is an alternative - if you have several thousand pounds laying 
>> spare...
> 
>   How much did your Windows cost you, *including* the PC it's running in?


time, IIRC.


quite a lot more...

>   Besides, the "several thousand pounds" is BS. A fully-working Mac mini
> (with MacOS X) is $599, which is about 307 British pounds.


least twice the figure.

>   "Yeah, but it's a slow machine which you can't do anything with."
> Maybe, if you consider an Intel Core 2 Duo with 1GB memory "slow".

I don't particularly. In fact I'm actually moderately tempted with a Mac 
Mini.

OTOH, I have many hundreds of pounds worth of software that won't work 
on it. Which is fine I guess - I just keep *that* software on my PC 
instead. But then... what exactly am I going to use this shiny new Mac 
for? I guess there's a way to run POV-Ray on it, and it has a nice big 
dual-core CPU in there, so that looks good. But... I don't know... Do I 


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