@xplorrn -If i count cost of ownership and it’s a computer, toshiba t1100 dos machine with screen reader cost aroun five grand at purchase I didn’t make and lasted seventueen years for about 22 and change a month cost of ownership the cheapest of any computer I’ve owned and the longest lasting…it was custom made.  the most expensive computer i owned was a used mac which lasted a good spel but sad mac’d and at that time it wasn’t economic to repair…main culprit was a lack of legal operating system not available except at retail price and thus prohibitive to purchase along with repairs needed….to it’s credit though showed all faults prior to failure and worked as advertised far better than any machine period….but was the higher end of the machines I’ve owned for real world cost per month ownership.    the second high ticket computer was a bell and whistling dell laptop thatalso was low cost but less seccussful than thetoshiba custom made with high cost repairs and lots of them but lasted well.  the cheap pair of sneaker mileage computers toshiba and this asus at 300 and 4000 a piece lasted less than a year in my use apiece3 but were repairable in their times so far. but just dye faster…and the preverbial ductape is expensive neough…. not bad machines nor values but nothing like a machintosh.  but overall  the machine that beats them all was a webtv intenet appliance not techincally a computer at all lol that despite high cost required to operate monthly sevice was the most valuable machine i ever owned bar one as it could and did get my mom online.  a mac required double the steps and was 1000 times as useful but scared my mom off for lack of automation and simplicity.  after a few years with a web tv my mother bought a pc laptop and has been online sinc e.  it cost3 bucks a month more than the dos machine never online in my use and 2 dollars a month more than the expensive fancy laptop of many repairs but was thee simplest and best value of machine far more robust.  so in short scientifically and for me macs are very desirable and for me always will be a prize of ownership but in true are shit value compared to even crappy toyss level computers.    that surprises me and is seemingly unfair but the truth of my experience.

@mlbncsga - lol.  okay thenthe mild annoyance of computer reservation to endure but all in a room of magical ideas and comfy chairs. for you  imagine now today boots advisable as there is slush and snow in shadier spots. the walk it four blocks east west which aren’t mathmatically eactly half the north south blocks but seem to equate…one block either or north or south to the bus point and 10 minutes of a minor wait and 29 minutes then from the library goal. 
you will pass around a moutains view blues of the distance or sometimes a more cobalt blue which is to some purple …mountains majesty….amber waves of grain… as seen through a beer glass.  yeah.  you will weave a maze around a bridge reminiscent in shape to the old bridges of your youth now far prettier of archietecture but there is something of the magic of what was before. all about a circular walk with sometimes a fountain. to walk in the city building with again that echo of official magjesties as you step across stone in a tall alcove yes but room 2 stories ish tall.
you may encounter smells as well of fresh air ripe with icey snows or wish to not remember the riper still who left sans showered.  you may delight in a rare breeze of coffee most delightful or that of the asian fast food sushi place.  perhaps you may even cuss a deisle smoke breeze. or cacaphony symphony of who sat in that seat today on the buss?  the unmistakeable grandure of dusty ideas and cleaned lether seats. 
you may delight in how all libraries seem to hush a person first step in the door and this place is no different.
you might even extend your journey to theeateries about the area or perhaps catch the free shuttle to the main drag so as to get ahold of your coffee parr exelence. perhaps an independant game shop where I know he has a trainnee board for cribbage instruction/two player only scoring…which is? in the shape of a toilet seat hahahaha.  you may delight in either the hobby store or the big lots discount home wares storesfor novel nifty stuff that gets a person yelled at for spanking the budget   or womp…walmart shopping where what we need is reasonably there and affordable.  you may wish to sit in the empty mini ampitheater and dream of the silly city shows of less merit than a pbs special but city sanitary family…and dream of the spectacles of day’s before.
you may walk up the stairs across a bridge to the mountain found again and the trin to downtown or out of town.  and hope to spi the real tracks carrying a coal train. 

you may opt for wine and a discrete bush echoing laughter untoward perhaps playing wino… it is possible and the grocery store sushi edible so it can be a juxtaposition of high humor….however this is potentially illegal open container and public drunkenness tickets possible…
you may even do some banking. sexy home mortgages available for the hidden rape of fine print.
much awaits you be it the gas of fast food or lash of mid teir dining or a splash of good and bad breezes…an echo or two you can not forget and the ghosts of ideas.

@mlbncsga - yes, yes you are.   stomp and a beer

@xplorrn - I wanted to be actually fair about the why.. I mean I can’t tell you how much I’d love STILL to own a mac it is a badge of pride or like I’m instantly someone with sophistication and taste… but so far it’s just memories for me as I’m inbetween the convincing others of that value with their choices that could help me and I am not quite there with that purchasing power.