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Comment: or not. (Score 5, Insightful) 858  by captainjaroslav
(#27405819) Attached to: Mac Tax, Dell Tax, HP Tax  The problem
with this canard, or at least misconception, is that it takes
the notion "I would buy this kind of thing if Apple offered it"
(which may or may not be true) and assumes that, therefore, it
would be a good business move for Apple to offer that
configuration.  In the mid 90s, Apple had so many product lines
and options that you couldn't keep track of them: Classics,
Performas, Quadras, whatever. There were Apple-manufactured
machines that had two processors for dual-booting, not to
mention several brands of clones. (This is another thing that
many people still say: "if only Apple would get their head out
of their asses and license their OS to other manufacturers, they
would increase their market share, blah blah blah...") At that
time, it looked like Apple wasn't long for this world.  After
Jobs came back in 1996 (1997? whate