{"id":52,"date":"2007-12-22T11:34:36","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T18:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bclary.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/22\/are-macs-a-ripoff\/"},"modified":"2007-12-22T17:28:20","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T00:28:20","slug":"are-macs-a-ripoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bclary.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/22\/are-macs-a-ripoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Macs a ripoff ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI sit here typing this on a 4+ year old Dell Precision while my trusty 3+ year old IBM Thinkpad stands by waiting for me to hit the road. The Dell has never needed a repair while the Thinkpad has been to the shop once. I like the Thinkpad so much, I even went for the extended warranty when the original 3 year warranty expired.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve been jealous of the really sweet MacBook Pros that I&#8217;ve seen other mozillian&#8217;s packing and was planning on upgrading both my workstation and laptop to some really killer Macs sometime in the first half of next year. However, I am having second thoughts after seeing the kind of experience others are having.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/norman.walsh.name\/\">Norm Walsh<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/norman.walsh.name\/2007\/12\/07\/encryptionLossage\">has been<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/norman.walsh.name\/2007\/12\/15\/moreLossage\">having<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/norman.walsh.name\/2007\/12\/21\/backInMac\">problems<\/a> recently that raised my concerns a bit.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/\">Dave Winer<\/a> has also been experiencing his share of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/stories\/2007\/12\/14\/itCanOnlyMeanOneThing.html\">pain<\/a>, but his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/stories\/2007\/12\/22\/macsAreEvenMoreExpensiveTh.html\">experience<\/a> with the Apple Store has left me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photo_zoom.gne?id=2128564283&#038;size=o\">flabbergasted<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat other choices for a really fast workstation and laptop do I have? For what its worth, I&#8217;m running Fedora on both my workstation and laptop and don&#8217;t want Windows on either machine. Suggestions very much appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sit here typing this on a 4+ year old Dell Precision while my trusty 3+ year old IBM Thinkpad stands by waiting for me to hit the road. The Dell has never needed a repair while the Thinkpad has been to the shop once. I like the Thinkpad so much, I even went for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bclary.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/22\/are-macs-a-ripoff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are Macs a ripoff ?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bclary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bclary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bclary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bclary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bclary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bclary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bclary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bclary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bclary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}