Posted on 12/04/2004 2:33:50 AM PST by Eagle9
Ummm, no.
I've been using Linux full-time since 1997 or so, BTW. And I've never had a virus or worm.
Some in their alleged "computer", more in their scraggly little goatees.
Same here.
I'm really down on MS but what the heck, I've got an MS machine so it doesn't make a lot of sense to be down on MS users.
Do you use MS Word on that computer?
I suspect it works fine with Linux too. They may be claiming no support to avoid tech troubleshooting Linux problems.
And as noted there are things for which I have to use MS machines because software isn't or wasn't available for Macs.
But if you're happy with MS that's fine and I would not want Apple to have 90 percent of the desktops. Competition is good.
In my opinion Macs SUCKED big time before OS X came out.
I had used FreeBSD (the operating system that makes up the core of OS X) for my experimentation and server needs years before anyone ever heard of OS X.
I still like PCs for my day to day stuff, but Macs are very powerful and much better than they were years ago. For me as a computer fixing person, theres nothing like dropping to a terminal on OS X and fixing a pesky problem forcefully :)
Bill
Of course it does, it just has about 10x-100x fewer defects than Windows.
Think about it, MS comes out with a weekly security update & no one ever mentions it. Mac gives you one and it is news.
I use Windows at work and we get updates pushed to our machines when we turn them on. This happens 3 to 5 times per week. I use a Mac at home and it gets a security update a few times per year.
Let me tell you a story in real life. When I met my wife about 8 years ago, she was/is what I would call a "highly proficient" Windows user. She is a college professor with a Ph.D. and lots of experience in statistical analysis, so she is no dummy. She was adamant that a Mac was "too hard to use", "not standard", and "not able to do what she needed". OTOH, she has no IT department to feed her constant updates for her computer.
She consults and 10-12 times per year has a 50+ page report due for various clients. For the first 4 years, at least once per year her Windows machine would freeze up or fail sometime in the week before a report was due. The solution was always that we ended up going to the computer store and buying a brand new, top-of-the-line Windows machine because there just was no way to recover the old one in time to finish the report. This was cost-effective only because the report was worth more than the cost of a new computer. Always a name brand, Sony or HP. She would load her software on the new machine, start the report over from her backup, and always finish on time.
I could always recover the old machine and she would give it to one of her better students.
Anyway, about 4 years ago her school gave her a Mac and about a day of training in how to use it. Since then she has used nothing but Macs. And, there has never been a computer crisis the week before a report is due. In fact, there has never been a computer crisis at all. She has upgraded machines twice, but always because she wanted faster & better, and always at a convenient time. Being able to do an upgrade at a time of our choosing instead of with a deadline staring us in the face is really nice.
Bottom line here is that if you use your computer to earn money on your own, and can't afford an IT department, a Mac is the way to go.
Cost: I have heard the "Macs are too expensive" mantra too many times. Go to the Dell website and price out a machine you really want, then compare that to a Mac. You will discover that the Mac is either less or very competitive. True enough, they do not make $500 computers, but how many people really buy and use $500 computers? I always hear that complaint from someone who spent $1500 + on his computer.
Same here.
BTW, I made a copy of all the great quotations that fill your profile page. That's an excellent collection.
A work-in-progress (*LOL*).
ROFL!!! Zing!! You're evil. :-)
But I like it.
Got a source?
If it works for you, it's fine! :-)
Source for MSFT buying rights for Unix codes? It was in the news last year, I am sure if you google it, you'll find links. Doesn't take an egghead to figure out why would they want to go legal with the codes, it is just a matter of time.
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