willybfriendly - 5:11 am on Nov 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

Frankly, I am not sure how Apple has kept this model all these years. It goes way back, and any number of other companies simply folded under the weight of the IBM PC architecture.

How many of us cut our teeth writing BASIC programs on a C-64 or Tandy? How many used and Amiga (an awesome machine for its time)?

While I will readily admit I have not spent much time on an Apple for a long, long time, it was the inflexibility of the system offerings that led me to the PC platform all those many years ago.