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Nobody is asking you to settle for anything, jsut to aknowledge the truth:
Mac was gunning for a dual monopoly, anybody that was around when it still looked like Windows vs Mac would be a fair fight knows that
No software bundled with the OS is truly free, anybody that's opposed to government largess and insane taxes should be able to transfer the logic over

Those were my simple direct statements that you've been moving further and further away from with every post.

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Mac was gunning for a dual monopoly, anybody that was around when it still looked like Windows vs Mac would be a fair fight knows that

I'm not really concerned that Apple failed to establish an effective monopoly, or that Microsoft is a convicted monopolist.

I just want a computer with high quality, good value and technological excellence. If Wintel had those attributes, I'd be a Wintel user.