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| This Mac Brat... Built PCs for 10 years and cleaned up Windows messes for friends even longer.
After fooling with "experts" who didn't know how to download Java - and the three viruses my beloved ISP sent me, I quit. They were out of service for a week because of the LOVE virus. In the meantime I set up a network, got SBC Broadband up and running, avoided SBC/Yahoo bloatware by using only the DNS numbers, and I bought a Mac.
It was unpacked and online in five minutes. It worked out of the box without my spending any time looking for updated drivers. It didn't need any extra parts. My printer and scanner worked like it always did. All the software I needed except an office suite was already installed and working perfectly.
You can say all the negative things you want about Mac but while you are wasting time cleaning out viruses, cookies, adware, malware, spyware, keystroke loggers, back doors, defragging, or cleaning up from a nasty crash -- I'm working. I've been online 24/7for 3 years except for vacations and I have not crashed once. Mac crashes are hardware issues whereas PC crashes are generally attributed to the memory pool.
When I needed office tools I did not pay $500 for MS Office for Mac, I paid $80 for Apple Works and bought the same tools. I finally have a spread sheet that doesn't lock up and crash. As long as there is Rich Text Format and plain Text I won't ever see a .doc again.
PC users cannot compare their machines to a Mac because no company named PC makes a computer whereas Apple does. It creates the Mac, the Apple ROM, the Apple software, and designs the internal and external factors. This leaves only software to compare. Windows software forced me to upgrade printer/scanner/?? every time I upgraded my OS. Apple knows Mac users work for a living. Most of the hardware is backwards compatible. My new Canon PC/Mac printer that I bought for the W98se listed on the side of the printer box worked fine with a 1995 Mac Clone but not with the PC. And it worked perfectly with the new OS X.
You wanna compare software, fine. Quark costs PC users less than it does me. Most PC for Mac compatible software does. OTOH Mac software isn't built for a DOS, VBS, or NT platform. it's built for a UNIX platform. .
Computers do the same things regardless of he operating system. Every user has a favorite machine and favorite OS. Mine happens to be a G4MDD and Panther. Dollar for dollar, if you put a PC, LINUX and MAC on the bench, that had the same hard drive, same brand and amount of memory, the same video card, installed Red Hat on all three and then ran the identical graphic and speed tests you wouldn't see a nickles worth of difference - and they would all cost $2000.
Trashing another persons choice for computer is a waste of time if you never owned one like it. For myself, I wanted a Mac in 1997 but it took another six years to finally get it. Gates and his VBS viruses finally prevailed. This fall I will buy an another Mac, maybe two, a wide screen monitor and some new software.
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Mac: No windows, No gates, Apple inside |
