The Mac is Dead! Long Live the Wintel PC! was Apple ahead of schedule 3126

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:12:04 -0700, Timberwoof

Well, sir, I certainly don't plan on selling my computer anytime soon. In fact, possibly, never. Maybe to purchase a MacPro. Maybe not.

But you still have no rights over my computer, tentative or otherwise, since you are probably one of the last persons I would sell it to. Hell, I might even sell it to the local junkies, so they could keep better records of their smack sales before I would sell it to you.

As long as I own my computer, no one has any rights over it but me. You would "molest it" by removing XP or Vista.

When or if I sell it, it won't have any OS installed on it but XP, plus the apple bootloader, which you call "OS X". And the only CDs or DVDs which will accompany it will be the genuine Microsoft OEM copy of XP Professional (including the COA sticker containing the CD key) I currently have installed on it, since that is the requirement of the Microsoft EULA.

I would be selling an Apple Intel PC, no matter what the purchaser wants to call it.

By the way, since we're just hypothesizing here, if you wanted me to transfer the rights of my computer to you, you would have to accept the conditions I set, with no negotiations at all. And the conditions of the sale would be "As is", at the price I set. (The normal sales condition for all used goods). And I might (or might not) evacuate my bowels inside the handsome, well-engineered case before I shipped it to you. But I might jack up the price a little, since I would, after all, be adding a little "extra" into the bargain.

If I'm feeling expansive after that (I usually feel pretty expansive after evacuating my bowels), I might stick in the original OS 10.4.4 grey and white disk set as an act of good will, if your check didn't bounce. No extra charge.

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