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[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Phalanx

Whatever happen to simple elegance?

It got to be too much work, cheaper to just throw hardware at it. But, some of it still lives at Apple.

Originally Posted by BrendanB

But I really like Windows7 But I might go to a mac down the road as my cousin has had his for several years with no problems and it runs so much faster than my computer.

Good story, hope it gets fixed fast.
If you think a mac runs fast, try running DOS on a modern computer. That was when elegance wasn't an option - if you couldn't make it run in <640k RAM, it didn't run - and people still had to get things done as fast as possible, but with a 5 MHz clock speed.

For certain (non-commercial) programs, I still run DOS, because it's easier to write in and executes very fast on a 100 MHz Pentium. Same calculations in XP take longer.

Of course, my daily PC runs XP. Another prisoner of Windows. It could be worse (CP/M for instance)