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To: kittycatonline.com
What, via emulation?

No... natively. No emulation.

I repeat, "The new Macs, all of them, can run Windows just as easily as they run Macintosh OS X."

It is amazing how ignorant you are about Macs. But then you have probably never touched one. I on the other hand make my living working on both Windows and Macs... 90% Windows... so I am NOT ignornant.

48 posted on 08/15/2006 11:45:00 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!")
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To: Swordmaker
It is amazing how ignorant you are about Macs. But then you have probably never touched one.

Sorry, wrong on that one. I've owned quite a few, actually. I've even got a IIci wrapped up in the hopes that one day it'll be worth big $.

Tell you what, you go and get a handful of folks from the office, the mall, at church, whereever. You ask 'em what Mac apps they like the most, or if they don't have a Mac, which Mac apps they wish they had. You'll most likely get a big blank stare. Roll the calendar back a decade, and I could name a load of good Mac-only apps; Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress. All those are now available on Windows, along with pretty much the entire Adobe suite, which pretty much made up what was worthwhile on the Mac anyway. QuarkXPress of course is Quark, Inc., and they've done a good job of wrecking their own product, but that's another story.

Back to my point. In summary, if there was decent software for the Mac, and only for the Mac, you'd hear Apple say something besides "It does Windows!" If Macs are so great, why do they keep trying to be Windows boxes?

51 posted on 08/16/2006 10:10:44 PM PDT by kittycatonline.com
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To: Swordmaker

One of the odd things about Apple's recent advertising is that it criticizes various things about the "PC," but actually is criticizing Windows, not PCs, which have long been quite stable running other operating systems, and, truthfully are pretty stable these days even with Windows. Then, the Mac is touted for its ability to...run Windows!

Now, which is it? Is Windows horrible, or not?


58 posted on 08/17/2006 7:40:09 AM PDT by B Knotts (Newt '08!)
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