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To: dennisw
Windows 7 is going to kill the overpriced Mac business model

I disagree, I have used both PCs and MACs since the 1970's, mainly PC's most of the time. Lately I am tired of PC's and the high maintenance in time to fix every issue. I recently sent in one of my Lenovo's for a broken latch under warranty. The laptop came back with no network connection, either Wifi or hard wired. So after 2.5 hours talking to Lenovo and down loading drivers on another computer, burning to CD to transfer, the laptop works again. With a PC it's always something to deal with. So if my PC was a car, I would always be working on the car in order to get back and forth.

My other complaint is that I takes a while for the PC to work, even when waking from sleep.

I have neither of these issues with a MAC, it works without issues and I open the Macbook and start to work.

Now that said there are software and some Internet web sites which do not support MACs, thus the need for a PC.

Bottom line, I'm tired of learning all about how to make and keep my PC working, while not even having to think about the MAC.

20 posted on 04/07/2009 3:36:25 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: Lockbox
I have used both PCs and MACs since the 1970's

As they didn't arrive until the 80's, I have questions.

21 posted on 04/07/2009 3:37:37 AM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: Lockbox
Now that said there are software and some Internet web sites which do not support MACs, thus the need for a PC.

Thus the miracle that is VMWare Fusion.

67 posted on 04/07/2009 10:19:30 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Lockbox

You said — I disagree, I have used both PCs and MACs since the 1970’s, mainly PC’s most of the time.

Ummmm..., Macs (not MACs, Media Access Control, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Access_Control ) were not in existence in the 1970s. They did not come into existence until 1984.

In addition, the IBM PC did not come around until 1981, with the IBM introduction of their desktop computer... (I remember going out to specifically see that machine...).

Prior to that, you had the Apple II computer, that Apple produced from 1977 forward.

And prior to that, you had hobbyist computers like the IMSAI 8080, which really was not a computer like we know, at all..., from 1975 forward. You had to be a real geek to even do anything with it... :-)

It would seem that you would know the difference between “Mac” and “MAC” for one thing, and also know that there were not PCs and Macs to compare in the 1970s, and that there really were no real “desktop computers” until about 1977 forward, and it was not even a “comparison” between Apple and “PCs” until the 1980s...

I would say you don’t know your computers very well...

[ P.S. — if you were using a “PC” since the 1970s, you were either programming the IMSAI 8080 yourself, having to “kludge” things together to make it even work right..., or you were using the Apple II Series of computers.... LOL...]


72 posted on 04/07/2009 10:36:35 AM PDT by Star Traveler
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