Limbaugh could sell new Mac

The Hill ^ | 1/26/05 | David Hill

[Sam Cree]

The computer is running IExplorer 5 right now, which lets in popups...it has another browser, Safari, installed that I can switch to?

Thanks. Sorry for the ignorance, am used to Windows.

[TheBattman]

If it used a 3.5" higher capacity say 100GB-200GB, 7200rpm SATA drive, it would be much better.

And bigger, hotter running, and a tad more expensive.

[Swordmaker]

If you are running OSX.1 or above, you have a version of Apple's Safari Browser that has that as an option under the Safari Menu... just select "Block Pop-Up Windows" and you are done.

[ByDesign]

I think they are more or less doomed.

Hehehe.... We have been hearing the gloom-and-doom death-of-Apple forecasts for some 15+ years. The fact that Apple is turning a very nice profit must be a bad indicator too....???? Let's not even mention the major rise in Apple stock prices in the last coupel of years....

No kidding. I've been using Macs since the Mac II, and it's all I've heard the whole time! I use Windows, too - I'm an equal-opportunity computer user, they're just tools. I know Dvorak runs out an "Apple is doomed" column whenever things are slow, it's always an easy filler topic, but the predictions never quite come true. "No-one will buy $3K Powerbooks!" They're all over, and pop up as must have objects of drool in PC magazines. "No-one will buy a $500 MP3 player!" iPods are THE hot product this year, they're selling mountains of them.

I make a pretty nice living using Macs, I see no reason to switch full time to Windows, mostly because of the time invested in learning the Mac OS, and my considerable investment in Mac software - nor do I see any need to run around telling Windows users that their machines "suck" and using one makes them a "fag". I've never gotten a straight, reasonable answer why someone using a Windows machine gives them license to be rude and obnoxious whenever they see a Mac or a Mac user - the comments about "arrogant Mac users" mystifies me, most Mac users are terrified of admitting they have one, because of the abuse and generally rude behavior they get when they do. I've watched as adults walk by the Mac section at Fry's or CompUSA, and blurt out "Macs Suck!" - is there really any need for that?

There was a time when Apple probably was close to being sold, back in the 7.6 days, under Skulley, right before Jobs came back. Their machines were slow, buggy and expensive, the OS was buggy and completely unstable, and sales were way down. Macs truly did suck then. That's all been fixed, thankfully. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot I really like about Windows, too - and a lot I'd like to see improved on the Mac, but the doom and gloomers may be surprised by Apple's performance in the near future!

[Swordmaker]

Why do Mac people have to lie. Rush is no evangelist. He said on his show countless times, it's what I learned on and I don't want to change. How is that an evangelist?

Uh, Joe, I've heard him say a LOT more than that about his Macs... on one show he waxed eloquent for about 20 minutes on the superior nature of the Mac.

[xjcsa]

For the price of a typical Mac you'd think they could afford to add a second mouse button, maybe even a wheel...

[Swordmaker]

I got a IIsi that says you lie like a rug. Different connector. Different frequency. You could by an adaptor but it didn't work very well.

Uh, Joe, I set up several businesses networks utilizing Mac IIsis with standard VGA multisync monitors and that adaptor... worked just fine. I have a charity that is now going on ELEVEN YEARS using three of them with VGA monitors (The IIsis have gone through at least three monitors apiece!) in those eleven years.

[roadcat]

Read Fire in the Valley.

http://www.fireinthevalley.com/

A lot of great historical information there. It documents how Steve Jobs took what Xerox accomplished, and how he built on that technology and greatly improved it - only to give it away to Bill Gates. Apple later sued Microsoft because Windows "stole" GUI concepts from Apple. True in the sense that many concepts were conceived by Apple and not Xerox. But the book shows that Steve Jobs instructed his people to give free access to Bill Gates for the Macintosh GUI software code.

[Swordmaker]

The problem is, that wont help PC users. Monitors and keyboards aren't interchangeable with Mac.

Libs, Plug a USB keyboard and ANY monitor into a Mac and it will work... same with USB mouses... don't even need drivers.

[RnMomof7]

The Mac IS superior to the PC.( and more FUN too)

I bought my original Mac 6 years ago ( a display model ) that is still chugging along with nothing but a sound card in over 6 years. I added some memory as she aged, and a few months ago an external hard drive to hold some of my files ... but she is still a very functional G3. I never worried about a virus or worm, I have not had to reconfigure her or uninstall and reinstall anything
She still works well , abet slow for todays software soooooooooo

I just went to a G5 IMac and fully expect to get 6 year out of her, and her older sister sits there waiting for a monitor so my grandkids can use her when they come over

In the meantime in that 6 years my husband is on his third PC with many services done on them .

Mac is a user friendly tank .... just turn the key and it just keeps going .
and Bill Gates is not having to push it to get it started

[golas1964]

Double-click on the 'Macintosh HD' icon (upper right) then Double-click on 'Applications' and if you have Safari it should show up there. Then you just click and hold the Safari icon, drag it into the desktop 'Dock' and that's your Shortcut (or 'Alias' in Mac-speak)


If you don't already have Safari there's an easy way to get it: Go to 'System Preferences' (in the Dock), select 'Software Update' then select 'Update Now' and (assuming your on the Web) you'll get a list of software updates you can download straight from Apple for free.

Hope this helps...

[Echo Talon]

And bigger, hotter running, and a tad more expensive.

A little bigger yes, a little hotter running yes... more expensive NO...

[Liberty Valance]

~Limbaugh could sell new Mac~

Yes. He could.

[Sam Cree]

Thanks much, folks.

[Radioactive]

I don't think that price ($499) includes a monitor.

And it doesn't need one. The monitor will be your High Definition Flat screen television.

[Joe_October]

...Uh, Joe, I set up several businesses networks utilizing Mac IIsis with standard VGA multisync monitors and that adaptor... worked just fine....

Negative. The plug is different. The multi-sync is not a standard VGA monitor. It was designed to support the MAC with a special cable. I have one of those as well but it was not the $100 cheapy that others have described.

Live in your dream land. It's okay. Really.

[Swordmaker]

For the price of a typical Mac you'd think they could afford to add a second mouse button, maybe even a wheel...

You want one? Buy one... it will work without loading any drivers.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

I do believe I paid too much money for it ($2500 for a deluxe Queen mattress,

Wow! (you probably don't want to heat this ..) We paid $1700 for the metal frame, the box frame and the deluxe tempurpedic (Queen size) mattress. I love it. Its fabulous.

[golas1964]

I have a Macally iOptinet USB laser-mouse. It has a left and right button and a wheel, and you can customize it however you choose. Actually one button is all you need the way the Mac-OS is set-up, but, I agree, I'm used to the two-button mouse so I got one...

[RS]

"~Limbaugh could sell new Mac~

Yes. He could."

Yep... he might even increase the percentage of Macs sold by 50% to a whopping 3% worldwide !