Comment Most spent on OS X, very little on Linux (Score 2) 468
I did buy the RH 5.2 distribution for $55 back in 1998, but since then I've spent about $20 in obtaining about 6 different versions of Linux to try out.
When my parents bought a computer for me in 1996, Win95 came with it, including Office 95 (an extra $300 slapped onto the price tag), and I've been in college for the past 5 years, so I've been fortunate enough to get free copies of Win98, Win2000 Professional, Small Business Office Suite, and Office 2000: Mac. But if I had been a standard user, all of that software would have cost me close to $800 or $900.
Now if we consider how much I've paid for other Linux software, that would be $0. But since the release of Mac OS X, I've been using Macs most of the time. I paid $75 for OS X (which includes OS 9, too...so two OSs in one box, actually). Getting OS 9 was also a good deal since I could upgrade my old iMac to OS 9 without having to go and buy OS 9 separately.
So if I actually bought or upgraded all of my Microsoft software, I would have spent tons of money, but Linux would have been extremely cheap, and Macs land in the middle, closer to the more inexpensive side.
When my parents bought a computer for me in 1996, Win95 came with it, including Office 95 (an extra $300 slapped onto the price tag), and I've been in college for the past 5 years, so I've been fortunate enough to get free copies of Win98, Win2000 Professional, Small Business Office Suite, and Office 2000: Mac. But if I had been a standard user, all of that software would have cost me close to $800 or $900.
Now if we consider how much I've paid for other Linux software, that would be $0. But since the release of Mac OS X, I've been using Macs most of the time. I paid $75 for OS X (which includes OS 9, too...so two OSs in one box, actually). Getting OS 9 was also a good deal since I could upgrade my old iMac to OS 9 without having to go and buy OS 9 separately.
So if I actually bought or upgraded all of my Microsoft software, I would have spent tons of money, but Linux would have been extremely cheap, and Macs land in the middle, closer to the more inexpensive side.
