Buying a Mac with Wi-Fi

Supposedly, Henry Ford said in regard to his Model T, “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.” (He is also supposed to have said, “History is bunk!” but that's a matter for another time.)

It's somewhat unfair to the Mac to say that you can only have it one way because it is possible to customize systems. But for the most part there is no real reason to customize a system, and at any given time there are really only a handful of systems to choose from. This is as much good news as bad news because it makes purchasing a Mac a much less daunting proposition than purchasing a Windows computer.

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