I acknowledge the distinction you're making Tracy.

Problem is, at the user level, the hardware is kind of irrelevant.

My HP with a broken copy of Vista, w/ dual boot Linux has an Intel duo-core microprocessor and 4 gigs of RAM.
In vivid contrast, my Apple mini has an Intel duo-core microprocessor and 4 gigs of RAM.

It's true that the HP tower is a big fat box, whereas the Apple mini is a tiny little thing.
But that's immaterial to how the machine computes, the software it runs, etc.

I hated MS Win so much I spent over $1,500.oo on a $1,300.oo computer system.

I could have gotten one monster of a Windows machine for $1,500.oo

Quad core microprocessor, terabytes of HDD space, etc.

I know Linux is the superior system; more secure, more efficient, etc. etc. etc.

But I don't have the time and money to go to engineering school to learn all I'd have to know to get it to do what Windows machines do out of the box.

I hate it!

Bill Gates should be punished by being locked in a tiny jail cell, and forced to use his own crappy software, with all its flaws. The Constitution wouldn't allow it. That would be both cruel and unusual.

I don't recall ever called MS Win good software. Only that for users like me, it's the best on Earth. And that is a genuinely horrifying prospect.

"when the bigots of this world have been privileged for as long as they have, to them equality feels like discrimination." shiftless2