CDW Trip

This morning I cruised in to the CDW warehouse in Vernon Hills, IL. It was HUGE (not as big as the IBM facility in Rochester, but little is)! I was picking up our new computer system for work, including a Mac for me! Anyway, as I was waiting for the order to appear, I wandered around the store there. An interesting thing that I noticed. All the people who complain about Apple's OS prices are speaking out of ignorance. Panther (Mac OS X) was listed at $110. Windows XP was $300. Red Hat Linux was $350. $350?!? So much for Open Source. OK, which would you prefer to buy? Maybe this is why Windows users don't actually buy new operating systems. They wait until their computer is dead and then get a new OS with the new computer.