Posted on 09/26/2006 8:42:45 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Simplicity.
OS X’s built-in dictionary (based on the Oxford American Dictionary) defines simplicity as “The quality or condition of being easy to understand or do.” The thesaurus gives words like ease, clarity and effortlessness.
In the last day or so, I have used a PowerBook G4 1GHz, an eMac G4 800Mhz and an iMac G3 400Mhz (on which I’m writing this). On all three computers, I’ve run the same system. I’ve been running off an external hard disk drive that has my operating system, my applications and my files on it. (1)
I’ve been working this way for about six months, ever since my PowerBook’s hard drive gave up the ghost. And every time I switch to another computer, I’m amazed all over again.
All I have to do is plug the hard drive into a Mac and boot from it. (Hold the Option key at boot-up to see a list of bootable drives.) No configuration or reconfiguration necessary. ZERO. Zilch. Nil. Nada.
I can plug my external hard drive into any Mac with Firewire and it will boot up fine. (2)
Try that on a PC!
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what a load of BS.
You can believe what you like ET. All you have to do is read some of the transcripts from the Antitrust trial to know the methods that Redmond uses to block third party software. Have you ever wondered why javascript isn't native to the OS anymore, or why it's support doesn't exist? I guess not. And it's not the only example.
All you have to do is read some of the transcripts from the Antitrust trial
yea, and THEY CANT DO THEY ANYMORE... You can get PC's with other Operating Systems if you want, even Dells
so what your saying is the EU should have oversight of Microsofts engineering division? hmmm?
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Yeah, but I can't build my own Mac! IMO, more than half the fun of a computer is putting it together in the first place.
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I've built a couple of FrankenMacs from spare parts, but it *is* frustrating not to be able to build one from scratch.
No. Don't read it.
You must secretly want to join the Apple party. Why else would you enter these threads, read them, and post comments?
My favorites are the inevitable, "you're a homosexual if you use a Mac".
I love Macs!
more than half the fun of a computer is putting it together in the first place.
Ok, but have you tried a Mac?? You might feel differently if you used one.
I don't know. But I too admire that you can say that without putting something down because you don't use it.
You never seem to miss an opportunity to badmouth these threads. Are you Mr. MacBuzzkill?
At Microsoft anyone can come up with a feature and try to get it put into their software. While you may think this is good for innovation, these features aren't well vetted to see if they fit into the overall scheme and usability. That's how you get personalized menus, one of the worst user interface features ever.
Apple had their own problems though. Dragging a disk to the trash to eject it was their Ctrl-Alt-Del (a developer shortcut that got put into production). It's completely counter-intuitive, but they've fixed it now.
Ah, memories, when I installed IE and suddenly Netscape died. Turns out Microsoft replaced a needed DLL with one that had different calls to stop Netscape from working.
How about what MS did to Wordperfect... interupted the Printing routines so that Wordperfect could not print more than two copies at a time... If you wanted 20 copies, you had to invoke PRINT 10 times even though you told it to print 20. Word, of course, had no problems with printing more than 2 copies.
MS continues similar practices today with their software to create webpages... often web pages created with MS's tools check to see if you are using something other than IE and, if its not IE, refuse to work correctly. I can set my Safari user agent to IE6 (which basically says "Hey, I'm Internet Explorer!" to any call that asks) and then pages that don't work suddenly work fine. The only thing that is different is that the offending web page now sees "Internet Explorer" rather than "Safari" is at the other end.
I did say "memories," didn't I? But tricks have been done since then. Remember when they tweaked MSN to render improperly for the Opera browser when Opera looked to be the competition for IE?
Not recently, I'll admit. We had Macs in grade school and high-school, and I was turned off to them then - the GUI just felt too kiddie-ish. The whole color-scheme thing with the iMacs I found to be asthetically displeasing - I've always felt a computer should look like a machine, not a toy or a fashion accessory. Plus, the whole one-button mouse thing, and the no floppy drive - disappointments.
But I don't see any sense in making fun of someone for what they like. Some guys like sports cars, I like pick-up trucks. Whatever makes you happy and fulfills your needs, that's what you buy - for computers, vehicles, whatever.
Great!
I like blue cars. :D
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