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Posted on 05/26/2009 11:04:51 AM PDT by Gomez
You said — Macs are for kids.
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Well..., thank you for the compliment. I haven’t been referred to as a kid in quite a while and it’s nice to hear that... :-)
It sounds a lot better than “an old geezer”... LOL...
“Insofar as” I have created, developed and hold numerous patents in non-destructive testing...I love my MacBook Air.
I love their commercials, they’re great... LOL...
You said — PC’s power the world.
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Yeah..., I kinda think of them like the sewers in cities... you’ve got them, but you won’t find me down there... LOL...
Uh, Carter? Macs run Windows (3.1 through Vista and 7), all versions of Linux, they ARE certified UNIX, Mac OS X.0 through X.5.6 (and OS X.6 Snow Leopard), MS DOS, and a host of other OSes. Many PC magazine pundits have reported that Windows runs faster on a Mac than on equivalent speed PCs.
Mac’s are the democrats of the computing world - “Do everything for me and don’t bother me with the details, however much I have to pay”, while PC’s give you the freedom to use it however you see fit for a bargain price.
You really don't have a clue about the capabilities of modern Macs, do you?
You said — PCs are losing steam ...
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Ummm..., it sounds like a lot of PCs are “steaming” to me — at least from their posts, anyway... :-)
Do you mean the same IT departments that give that kind of total control over the basic software that runs the computer, Windows?
LOL..., you haven’t seen some of the PC/Windows users that I have. They would put that girl to shame...
You said — The only reason Mac’s don’t have a big issue with viruses is because most people don’t use Macs.
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Ummm..., so that means, that being a “good shopper” — I should be looking around for the computer that has the most viruses... That way, I’ll make sure I have the best computer to use.... LOL...
You really don't know what you are talking about, do you? I have clients running OS X.3 using iWork'06 and iLife'06 that are fully functional and productive doing "normal work." I know of Mac users still using OS X.2. I also know of Mac users with ten year old Macs running OS X.5.6 Leopard usefully. Show me a ten year old PC capable of running Vista usefully.
You said — a single mouse button is sooo limiting...
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Hmmm..., from what I’ve seen, there are about six separate actions (or “buttons” if you will) on my mouse... (that’s the normal mouse that Apple has...).
I don’t know what mouse you are using.... LOL...
http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/
You said — College kids are susceptible to hip pop-culture trends and slick advertising. Surprise.
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Well..., I would have said that perhaps the youngsters are simply listening to their “elders” — you know... like me... LOL...
It’s truly amazing. Mac users discuss the relative merits of OSes... PC users attack and insult Mac users. Mac users seldom insult PC Windows users. It never fails.
You said — What I also know is that for some reason those Macs are hauled back into the stores constantly — any time I am in a mall that houses a Mac store, there they are, kids marching through the mall(s), lugging their Mac computers.
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Well, the answer for that one is easy. None of those other stores will talk to you or look at what the problem is — on the spot — right there in the store. If it’s a problem, you’ll have to mail it or go to some repair shop.
But, with Apple, you can carry it in, they’ll look at it, discuss the problem with you and tell you if it needs to be repaired — or — will many times simply fix it *on the spot* right there, while you are waiting.
That’s why you don’t see those other stores with people taking their computers in. Those other stores would *laugh* at you for expecting them to take the time with you there... LOL...
You said — Over the past year the company I work for hired 9 engineers almost directly out of college. Each one was given a stipend to buy a laptop of their choice. Every single one bought a MAC. Engineers, mind you.
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Obviously, they hired some smart people... :-)
Is that why virus writers wrote the Witty Worm to infect all 12,000 of the vulnerable Windows PCs that had not updated their Black Ice Firewall—closing the vulnerability Witty used—six months before? Every single vulnerable computer was infected less than 45 minutes after Witty was released into the wild.
I suppose that sheer numbers of available targets was the reason hackers wrote viruses that attacked and infected 30,000 cellular phones? Was it also the reason crackers wrote viruses to infect the 200 or so iPods that had been converted to run on Linux?
These are all considered sufficiently large enough target populations to attack by malware writers with their viruses and malware, but 35,000,000 OS X Macs, running completely naked to the world without anti-malware, are not? Get real.
The fact is that on the internet, every computer is virtually next door to every other computer.
Incidentally, have you watched the BBC documentary "Six Degrees of Separation"? It is all about the new science of networking... and mapping the internet shows that EVERY website on the Internet is only 4 to 6 links from any other... and ergo, every computer is that close as well. It is an extremely interesting documentary. You can watch it HERE.
And on a Mac, you can do all of those... at the same time.
When? I have been using OS X Macs since 2001. I've had three kernel panics, all of them with OS X.0 or OS X.1. I manage networks of multiple Macs... the last system crash occurred over three years ago when a fan failed and an iMac froze because of overheating. So just exactly HOW did you "crash" a Mac so that you had to reboot? What OS?
Paladin, Macs have not shipped with single button mouses since August 2005. Macs have worked, out of the box, with multi-button input devices since at least 1994. I think that ignorance is what is limiting.
Re: “.................That’s why you don’t see those other stores with people taking their computers in. Those other stores would *laugh* at you for expecting them to take the time with you there... LOL”
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Someone else already responded with a similar answer to kids carting used Macs thru malls. So thank you, too, for your response. As I said, I was curious — wondering what was going on.
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