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"ervaqre" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message 
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> DG is a mighty pirate...
>> The fact that most don't play blu-ray also means they're not quite 
>> future-proof.
>> They may not have the money for expensive blu-ray now, but that may 
>> change.
>> Blu-ray discs already are getting cheaper (I've seen some for 10 euro's).
>> Besides, somewhere along the line home burned blu-ray will become as 
>> abundant as
>> DVD's. Unless it gets overtaken by USB, SD, flashcard or even cloud 
>> storage.
>
> What makes you think blu-ray will become popular though? I have never
> even seen a blu-ray disk in my entire life. These days you can get a
> HD quality movie on the internet in just a few hours.

I refuse to purchase Blu-Ray.  It will go the way of the BetaMax.

>
>> MacOS is something I don't recommend. For one you're not supposed to make 
>> a
>> Hackintosh and buying straight from Apple is just way too expensive. 
>> Second, a
>> lot of stuff - mainly games - just don't work on Apple. It can be very
>> frustrating to find a PC game under the Christmas tree that does just 
>> what it
>> promises: it runs on a PC. Not a Mac. And then you have to explain a 
>> Apple is a
>> computer, but not a personal computer. Also a lot of school stuff has the 
>> same
>> problem. It'll work on a PC, but not an Apple.
>
> People should stop celebrating Christmas then! Or stop playing PC
> games! I believe there are Nintendo's and Xboxes for games.

I never used MacOS, or Apple anything.  The closest I came to Apple was an 
iPod Nano for my middle child.  Screw iPhones too - refuse to get one.  I'm 
not exactly thrilled with MS, but I'd rather stick with them until something 
else mainstream dazzles me enough to bother with it.  And I am still a 
console gamer.  =)

>
>> Oddly it is easier to explain to people that Linux, though it runs on a 
>> PC, is
>> NOT Windows compatible. Switching from Linux to Windows than from Apple 
>> to
>> Windows also seems to have a lower threshold. Which is logical. If you've 
>> spent
>> 2000 euro's on an Apple, you don't want to spend another 100 or more to 
>> put
>> Windows on it. If you buy a 300 euro Linux box, 'upgrading' to Windows 
>> doesn't
>> seem like such a disaster.
>
> Why would you want to switch to Windows from Linux? It is insanity!!!!

My daughter's OS crashed and burned - XP home ed.  My (first) ex-husband put 
Linux on there to fix it (I thought he was going to put Windows back - I 
wasn't home, but *shrug*)....I had to explain to her about Linux and 
Windows.  It was almost like a birds and the bees chat.