http://www.caffination.com/tech/planned-obsolescence-1880/ Caffeine Culture and Technology News Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:53:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.caffination.com/tech/planned-obsolescence-1880/#comment-21351 Monkeyman8 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:18:48 +0000 http://www.caffination.com/?p=1880#comment-21351 I'd rather just not have a mac? Is that a valid option? I don't mean to be "that guy," but I just don't get why I would buy a mac. Until this Christmas I was using a laptop from '02, and it ran fine except when gaming I had to strap and extra fan onto it. So yeah, can anyone explain to me why I would want a mac at usually 200% mark up when what makes non Macs obsolete is the hardware rather than software (I'm pretty sure anything running win 95 is obsolete but the last computer I had that ran it died a long time ago) I’d rather just not have a mac? Is that a valid option? I don’t mean to be “that guy,” but I just don’t get why I would buy a mac. Until this Christmas I was using a laptop from ’02, and it ran fine except when gaming I had to strap and extra fan onto it. So yeah, can anyone explain to me why I would want a mac at usually 200% mark up when what makes non Macs obsolete is the hardware rather than software (I’m pretty sure anything running win 95 is obsolete but the last computer I had that ran it died a long time ago)

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