April 17, 2000
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Computerworld reports that millions of obsolete PCs enter the waste stream each year. I am convinced that this is the real reason that the calculated market share of Windows-based PCs is so huge. I’ll agree that the raw number of Windows boxes is significantly larger than that of the Macintosh installed based, but the numbers are inflated because Macs stay in use longer and are not obsoleted en masse like their inferior counterparts are. Is my bias showing yet? Case in point, the server that this very site runs on is an eight year old non-PowerPC Mac with a measly 28 MB of memory that I salvaged from my employers. I wouldn’t trade it for a boxcar full of Pentiums.
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