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To: Swordmaker

My got my first re-introduction to Apple after nearly 20 years (used to work for Motorola back when the Mac fx was king; back in the 68030 days). Then my career took me to Intel and the Windows world. That re-introduction to Apple had me furious as an engineer. More technically furious then I have ever been at any design review, patent hearing or budget meeting. I had to leave the store to cool down.

Why? Because all PC and laptop had been using the same Synaptic touchpad sensors for over a decade. And ONLY Apple had bothered to make simple and elegant gestures to navigate at the OS level. Pull up all tasks, change applications, zoom, shrink, rotate, page forward, back, move Windows. Single, double, triple and 4 finger touch commands.

What the hell had MSFT been doing with this great tech for the past 20 years? Nothing. Nada. Zip. Apple showed them how, then some very poorly executed copies started coming out (and 99% of the users disabled them because, well; they suck).

Now I have a Mac and run Parallels. I can run WinXP, Win7 Pro and Win10 on my Mac if and when I want to. My goal is to snag a Mac Pro and stick 64 Gig of DDR on it, so I can play games while emulating Win10. But with the Mac, I have it all.


11 posted on 08/12/2016 12:06:13 AM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: Hodar

Apple sells computers, MS sells software. Secondly, try upgrading hehe will cost an arm, and FINALLY Apple is Liberal, always has been since I can remember:https://www.2ndvote.com/scores/apple


61 posted on 08/12/2016 9:32:01 AM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (MECCA and Medina, the SNAKE HEAD..)
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To: Hodar

Apple sells computers, MS sells software. Secondly, try upgrading hehe will cost an arm, and FINALLY Apple is Liberal, always has been since I can remember:https://www.2ndvote.com/scores/apple


62 posted on 08/12/2016 9:32:11 AM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (MECCA and Medina, the SNAKE HEAD..)
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To: Hodar

Apple sells computers, MS sells software. Secondly, try upgrading hehe will cost an arm, and FINALLY Apple is Liberal, always has been since I can remember:https://www.2ndvote.com/scores/apple


63 posted on 08/12/2016 9:32:33 AM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (MECCA and Medina, the SNAKE HEAD..)
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To: Hodar

Apple sells computers, MS sells software. Secondly, try upgrading hehe will cost an arm, and FINALLY Apple is Liberal, always has been since I can remember:https://www.2ndvote.com/scores/apple


64 posted on 08/12/2016 9:32:56 AM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (MECCA and Medina, the SNAKE HEAD..)
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