Apple computer equipment and other things.

I would never own an Apple computer due to its proprietary hardware.  

Just like MS (Micro Soft) Windows and its proprietary software, where they can shut down your computer that you purchased with your money running their software and they can brick you system.  

Apple has proprietary hardware, in other words, they can charge you 10 times what you could normally pick up off the shelf for an IBM clone machine.  Like a Hard drive, a Modem, when they were the only thing available. 

Today's Apple machines are nothing more than crippled Unix/Linux machines held hostage by Apples proprietary hardware.  

When IBM purchased RedHat Linux, that was the end of the RedHat side of Linux.  What was the first thing they did.  End the life of CentOS.  A free version of RedHat without the support.  

Now RedHat is back on commercials trying to get back business.  

If I owned a business and needed that kind of service I would consider RedHat.  But for a home user, basically just fiddling around learning how Linux works with the computer and surfing the internet, it is not worth the service price RedHat is demanding.

Way back in the day, early 80's I got into computers.  Loved it, loved learning how to use it, loved all the things you could do with it and Loved the games you could play on it.  Back then there were arcades.  Pac-man, Space Invaders, Missile Command, Asteroids, Donkey Kong, Dig Dug and Qix, just to name a few of the games you could play at home on your computer.  

I had just purchased an 286 processor computer and Linux just came out and you needed a 386 processor to run Linux.  Well, I had to wait.  I had DOS 6.x and then Windows 95 came out.  Destroying thousands of businesses.  A promise that you can switch to Windows 95 without losing any data.  That was a lie.  Then they moved from Window 95 to Windows 98.  A huge amount of Windows 95 users waited until the the brave moved and saw what happened.  When people were able to move without losing data the people who got burned with 95 move to 98. I think Windows 98 was the best OS (Operating System), MS ever put out.  About 15 years after getting my computer, and a few computers later, with MS killing off Windows 98 with Windows XP.  People had thousands dollars worth of software for Windows 98 that would not run on Windows XP.  That is when I decided to move to Linux.  

I had old computers that ran Linux better than Windows.  Besides there were loads of software that you could use on Linux that didn't cost you an arm and a leg that Windows software was costing you.  

Think about it.  When you buy a MS Windows system today, you basically get nothing but an OS and maybe a notepad.  That's it.  You have to fork out a small bit of money here and a small bit there.  So your $120 OS you had to add $100 to well over $1,000 to get your computer to do what you wanted.

With Linux you download the OS, install it and there are plenty of software packages available right out of the box, then if you need more there software vaults that have thousands of software packages.

If you are interested in podcasting, there's software for that, if you want to make a movie, there's software for that.  If you needed an office suite there are several available for you to choose from.  If you were into art, there are plenty of packages available.  If you are learning a programming language you can download many of them on Linux for free.  I wish I had Linux when I was going through college.  Would have saved me hundreds in software costs.  Almost all of it you can download to your computer free of charge.  There are a few Linux's that asks for money to use and there are some software packages that require money.  But about 95% of the software is free to use. 

Like internet today, you wind up at Google and there is a list of news stories for you to choose from, and when you click on it, this or that business wants money so you can read the story. This is the Windows way of doing things.  Imagine if you paid everyplace you got a story from you could be hundreds if not thousands out of pocket for pages you may never get back too. Get rid of Google.  Move to some other search engine.  There are plenty of search engines out there.  You can always come back to use Maps, Earth or Translate without making Google your home page. 

Just wanted to tell you, you can put the fun back into computing by moving to Linux and learning how to use the computer all over again.  To just surf the internet, download Linux Mint and install it and you are ready to go.  

By the way you could always install the Linux to a thumb drive and start your computer using that thumb drive and play with Linux to see if you really like it before wiping Windows off your computer.