Posted on 02/18/2008 8:43:10 AM PST by rivercat
Who do you think you're kidding?
What earthly difference does it make to you what someone else buys or uses besides Windows? Does it harm you in some way?
It was a poor attempt. Microsoft wasted several years of R&D trying to develop a "new" operating system that copied Apple - but Bill Gates messed it up with some of his pet projects like WinFS. Then Microsoft threw it away and started over again, and rushed it out the door without attaining the high quality that Apple achieved with with Mac OS X.
Microsoft will not be able to develop a decent modern operating system until they abandon their instance on native compatibility with 1981 standards. Their PC-DOS compatibility needs to be in a separate subsystem, not running the main show.
that’s where you set the “primary” click - right or left.
The primary, usually the left, is your regular click operation, the other brings up context sensitive selections.
HAVE to be arrogant???
I am a BIG Mac user, but I also use PCs. I love Macs, but not to the point where I feel they are necessarily so much better that I won’t even touch a PC.
But, I’ve always been a Mac guy so I prefer them.
Is there a spinning hour glass on PC machine anymore? I look at one every day and have not seen it.
My Wife is a MAC user and while she is more liberal politically than I, she wouldn’t be caught dead watching them sell Birkenstocks on QVC, and she is a hot redhead. We “adopted 3 IMacs for various applications at the House and the Lake, and I can sign on DIAL UP faster than this HP Piece of **** can boot up. This machine runs XP and not very well!
Next box is a souped up Mac.
Um, Leopard, Tiger, Jaguar....etc. etc. Truth is, Mac OS doesn’t need a lot of serious redesign like the Windows operating systems. You can’t improve upon perfection. See, there, I just proved the point of the story. I am a Mac OS snob. But, can your PC run Mac OS? My Mac can run XP, vista, ME, whatever. So who has the most choices, hmmmmm?
And if you don’t have a Mac, my above suggestion tells you why you should have one. That’s all you need to know to fix 90% of the problems you MIGHT encounter with a Mac. Of course, you should repair your permissions once a month, just to be smart. All the cool snobs do.
What movie showed that?
The beach ball of death is a nuisance, but the software being used when this rare nuisance occurs is a nightmare in its pc version. It’s not even a close contest. So again, the best computer depends on how you want to use it.
Story From The Trenches:
We support the network for the cancer research center at University Hospital. We get ass-tons of support calls, because their network is their main source of genetic data exchange and consultations. And it’s gotta keep running.
Got a call frmo a researcher with a Mac. Off the cuff, while I was fixing his account, I asked how he deals with the Mac vs. IBM debate.
He said simply, “Mac makes our presentations do backflips, but can it defrag a DNA string, and send the code to Hopkins? Hardly.”
* They sound like rather like hybrid drivers with their superiorty complex.
It depends on the definition of "savvy". Mac users aren't very good at running anti-virus software, editing the registry, resolving IRQ conflicts or calling India for technical support. Many Windows users see those tasks as evidence of their computer savvy, but I see them as time-wasters.
He had a...um...rather unpleasant...experience...
XP has an hourglass pointer. The default hourglass pointer is not animated.
1. One who has never experienced the pleasures of adware, spyware, viruses or bloatware on his own computer.
2. One who has never witnessed the "blue screen of death" on his own computer.
3. One who doesn't have to reload the system SW on his own computer once a month because it has slowed to a crawl from of all the adware, spyware, viruses and bloatware.
I fit all three of the definitions. I guess I'm a snob.
You are wrong about the computing power. And you’re making another mistake when you assume that because that’s the limit of your experience, that’s all there is.
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