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Comment by gringomorcego | Hacker News Reader

Jesus christ, this sense of entitlement is fucking nuts.

Do you have a computer? Can it access the web? Is it less than 5 years old? Congratulations, you have a pretty amazing computer that should be able to do most things pretty reasonably.

I mean Jesus, some people make it seem like it's a personal attack when corporations don't pander to all.

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Andy Hertzfeld's opinion is relevant because he was one of the key people behind the original Macintosh released in 1984.

For some background: http://folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&cha...

Some people actually use computers to get real work done and not simply for browsing the web. Doing 'most things reasonably well' doesn't even come close to being good enough in a lot of areas.

"Testify Brother Testify"

the rules of tecnical computing

1 there is no such thing as too much RAM

2 there is no such thing as too much IPC

3 there is no such thing as too much DASD/Disk/Backing Store

4 there is such a thing as to little budget :-(

4 there is no such thing as a screen too big (or too many screens)

Can you render a 3 hour Final Cut Pro movie in a reasonable amount of time?

That's the Mac Pro use case.

What does this have to do with "can it access the web?". We're talking about top-of-the-line, most expensive, consumer destop PCs designed to do heavy tasks like video processing or scientific calculations.

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