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Originally Posted by OldTimer
Umm thats odd i can buy Vista Ultimate for £111 or Home Prem for £65
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Heck I can buy it a fair bit cheaper than that if I buy a stick of memory at the same time
Doesn't mean there's any technical support with them though.
The point is 9 out of 10 copies will be bought at PCWorld or similar stores, where OSX Leopard (the full OS plus the iLife suite, Apache server, developer tools, etc, etc) is sold for
£74, or the 5 user pack for £130. Vista full version home basic is
£139, the upgrade version that needs a copy of XP on the disc so it can install(not much good on a blank hard drive) is
£69, almost the price of the full version of OSX. The full on Vista Ultimate (with everything equivalent to OSX Leopard) is
£229
From experience a Mac (or
goodOS) would be a more suitable computer for the majority of general computer users out there who just see their PC in the same way they see their TV, DVD Player, etc, as something that's just supposed to work and not something that needs regular maintenance to keep running fine. It also amazes me how many people go on the internet by firing up IE, waiting for msn.com to load then type the web address they want into the live search box.
And of course (for those using either Mac or Windows) those who don't make any backups at all then ask if I can get their holiday/kids birthday photos and videos off a crashed hard drive.
