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1. about 3 years ago on Adam@Home

   A very good new iMac is only $1299 (USD). A laptop starts at $999. Not sure where you get your $4000 price tag from. Most people I know that have Windows PC buy a new one (~$1000) every 3-4 years [Though if you are buying a ‘gaming’ PC it will run into the $3-5000 range]. So, if the new Mac also lasted 14 years, your PC buying friends will have spent around $4-5000 compared to your $1300. While you CAN buy a very cheap $600 PC, they do not tend to hold up all that well. My very large company (>5,000 employees) STILL replaces PC (Windows) hardware on a 3 year cycle. In contrast, the Mac’s used in certain departments are replaced on a 5-6 year cycle.

2. over 3 years ago on Tarzan

   The comic itself is copyrighted 1971 – 50 years ago when you were a mere 48!I agree that up till now this has been a less than stellar ‘adventure’; maybe it will improve when he takes the “Mahar” home….

3. over 3 years ago on Tarzan

   here it is on ERBzine: https://www.erbzine.com/mag38/3838.html

4. over 3 years ago on FoxTrot Classics

   With old Macs, you really have to go open source (e.g., LibreOffice) if you want to productively use them. My 1994 Powermac stays in use because it runs the proprietary software for a very old piece of lab equipment that we still use. I’ve used SheepShaver to emulate OS7 and OS8, but it is is kind of flaky, so I keep the old Iici around to open ancient files that new versions of software can’t open.

5. over 3 years ago on FoxTrot Classics

   My oldest Mac in everyday usage is a 1994 Powermac 6100 (PowerPC 601 chip) still running a piece of scientific equipment in 2021. Various other Macs of all antiquities still up and running. I also have a Macintosh Iici (1989) that I occasionally fire up to run some ancient software. But probably my favorite Mac is my G4 Cube that I have on a desk and which I power up regularly. I’ve had lots of PCs (especially in my lab) as well, but they simply don’t age well…

6. over 3 years ago on Wizard of Id

   WRONG. As mentioned, the US-Mexico border is ~1993 miles long of which only 452 miles has a “wall”. While the former Trump administration claims they had completed more than 400 miles of border wall, only 80 miles of new barriers were actually built where there were none before. This 80 miles includes 47 miles of primary wall and 33 miles of secondary wall built to reinforce an existing barrier. The vast majority of the 452 miles is replacing existing structures at the border that had been built by previous US administrations (including the Obama Administration).

7. over 3 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   A complete set of generic 4 color laser printer cartridges for my Brother Color Laser printer on Amazon.ca is $50. Prints 3000+ pages. I replaced my HP color with a Brother because it cost me $800 for a set of 4 HP color cartridges….

8. over 3 years ago on Moderately Confused

   The below site gives a fairly accurate picture of news sites:https://www.adfontesmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Media-Bias-Chart_Version-3.1_Watermark-min.jpg

9. over 4 years ago on Tom Toles

   I will also point out that the article you posted was from February 2018 – only 1 year into his ‘reign’. I suspect that if the authors updated the page to 2020, Trump would be the clear #2 (how fitting) and possibly #1….

10. over 4 years ago on Rob Rogers

    Ward and June only had two kids: Wally and ‘The Beaver’. That clearly made the housework much easy. /s