Posted on 01/26/2005 1:59:43 PM PST by Happy2BMe
It doesn't, you are correct. What would help is if we can convince a few million people to make the switch. :-)
Bill Gates is a solid liberal, he will undoubtedly be a strong supporter!
/Sarcasm
just did it. installed new motherboard. every thing was fine until i installed the video drivers bingo had to call ms. drivers no problem, sound no problem just video.
Have you ever managed to get any distro of linux to work with wireless equipment? I can't and it is really frustrating me. I've tried Mandrake 9.1 and 10, Redhat 9.1, knoppix 3.0, 3.4, and 3.7 installed to the hard drive, all with no success. If I could get my wireless gear going I would switch. Microsoft is becoming to invasive for my tastes, but Windows XP Pro SP2 works where as Linux so far, for me and my wireless network does not. I love the knoppix 3.4 version, installed, it is beautiful, but useless without the internet connection.
Microsoft is struggling STILL to make having an OS like having to pay electric or water bills. MS wants a monthly bill to go out to every owner of a computer.
Of course it is not going to happen since the monopoly is still there but the POTENTIAL exists to chip it away.
Once you get used to it, Macs are your friend. I use a Mac at work and the biggest problem I have is hitting the right keys to activate shortcuts. I keep hitting PC combinations at work and Mac combos at home. If I could just turn my brain around, it'd all be good. But them I might vote dem. Not good. I'll stick with the confusion.
Exactly if they lowered the costs to the consumer more people would buy it, I work as an IT, I have my own consulting firm and whenever I go to a site that is still using 9x I try to talk them into upgradeing to XP because it is more stable and secure, but most people do not want to pay $150+ per computer to upgrade, now if you could get it for $40 or $50 a lot more people would legally upgrade when the upgrades came out.
A lot of corporations like Microsoft blame high costs on the amount of priacy so they increase the price to make up for the illegal software, but in reality the high prices make priacy more worth it.
They're the Jordache of PC's. All name.
My Dell is awesome. $900 and better than anything Apple could produce. 2.8 ghz, 19 inch monitor, a gig of memory and DVDR
(I'm sure this statement will draw scorn)
That's so dead-pan, it's hilarious.
yikes!
Is that about right?
On your mouse, forget about "right-clicking" -- there is none.
>If you have a Mac you no longer have to worry about viruses. There aren't any for the Mac.
who would bother writing a virus for all 12 of them that has been made?{sarcam}
Nice coaster.
No problem. All of my software is legal. People who steal software are thieves.
On another note, after 14 months of screwing around, I finally got RedHat 9 to print on my XP network printer this afternoon.
Not scorn, just that I'd point out that for roughly the same money you could have a faster Mac mini with better software, a more stable OS, a firewire port, better video/graphics capabilities, support for bluetooth & WiFi, and a drive capable of not only reading DVDs, but burning them as well (and also being able to burn CDs). Oh, and you wouldn't need an anti-virus application. :-)
Yeah, I guess the million+ macs that Apple sold in Q404 don't count.
"If you have a Mac you no longer have to worry about viruses. There aren't any for the Mac."
You just keep believing that, it is people who think stuff like that keep me in business.
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