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OK. I have a Mac- now what?
none ^ | 9-05-07 | perfect stranger

Posted on 09/05/2007 7:44:41 PM PDT by perfect stranger

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Installing a wireless USB connection went by without a hitch with my Compaq using XP Pro, but not with this machine.

What am I missing?


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To: perfect stranger

http://www.macworld.com/forums/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=342241&an=0&page=9


81 posted on 09/08/2007 7:02:42 PM PDT by perfect stranger
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To: Blue Highway
Also I wouldn’t think OSX would be any slower than say running Vista on that Dell 800, and that wasn’t too bad. Does your iMac still have a SCSI hard drive? I remember the one that I messed with that was in the trash had one, which also had an OSX upgrade cd in the plastic sleeve. IIRC around the time Apple switchd to Intel processors they started using IDE drives. Then again I may be imagining that, and for all I know they still use only SCSI drives...

The model that Perfect has uses a ATA-3 hard drive. Modern Macs use SATA drives and have since G5s came out about 5 years ago.

82 posted on 09/12/2007 5:15:09 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
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To: perfect stranger
I wonder if you can put a bigger HD in it. This ones all of 5 gigs.

Yes, you can.

83 posted on 09/12/2007 5:15:49 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
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To: Blue Highway; perfect stranger
Good luck with that. I'm guessing since it's an Apple you're lucky to be able to drag and drop even.

Excuse me... but "drag and drop" was pioneered on the Apple Lisa (1982) and then on the Mac (1984).

Microsoft got "drag and drop" as a shareware application (Apporia) in Windows 2.0 (1988).

84 posted on 09/12/2007 5:21:08 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
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To: Swordmaker
Yes, you are correct on that point. I just didn't bother to point it out.

While you're here....you have freepmail.

85 posted on 09/12/2007 5:29:09 PM PDT by perfect stranger
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To: Swordmaker

Sorry about that but I was never a fan of the Apple OS that I messed with as I was a Windows user for years and I forget the version Apple OS, but there wasn’t even a simple file management system equivalent to Windows Explorer, no built in disk defrag program (it used Norton’s Speed Disk which is notorious for frying HDD’s), other quirks that made me glad I never bought into the Apple hype. Whatever version of Apple OS I used, it seemed geared for the person that knew how to press the “on” button, and stuff like that.


86 posted on 09/12/2007 6:16:38 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: perfect stranger
OK. I have a Mac- now what?


87 posted on 09/12/2007 6:21:48 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Not yet I don’t. I’m looking for a version of UnsTuffit for OS 9.2


88 posted on 09/12/2007 6:24:30 PM PDT by perfect stranger
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To: Blue Highway
You too, can have the Mac experience on your Windows machine using the new Computer Breaking Service method.

Just move your tool bar to the top of the screen and delete all of the icons you often use for functionality and move the others to different random folders.

89 posted on 09/12/2007 6:35:32 PM PDT by perfect stranger
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To: perfect stranger

Exactly why I will stick to Windows. Can you even customize the toolbar at all with either placement or a quick launch folder. Or to add programs shortcuts? No? Hmmm That to me sounds quite opposite of what I hear mac users raving about them being so user friendly. If it can’t do what I expect it should do ity is not user friendly.


90 posted on 09/12/2007 11:54:44 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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