Posted on 10/20/2001 11:49:24 AM PDT by CheneyChick
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:16:28 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
I don't know if Apple brags about it or not.
I was just using it as an ad-hominem attack on Apple :-D
Often just stop and go downstairs to the 333 Mhz i-mac and do what I have to do in the time I need to do it.
IBM I've Become Macintosh.
I'm an Apple folk and I'm like a coffee drinker.
GO MAC GO! ;o)
And McDonalds "won"... so that must mean that McDonalds has the best food, huh?
Xerox
PARC
Smalltalk
mouse
`nuff said!
Mark
Gee, Mac Users, look familiar? Thank you PARC and the Alto. The only difference between Jobs and Gates is that Jobs had the idea to steal it first, then claim it as his own and have Mac users protect it with almost Scientology-like fever.
Owning and using both, I find the Mac superior only in digital manipulation and non-linear editing. And then, only by the smallest of margins. Photoshop for Windows is just as powerful as for the Mac. AfterEffects remains the killer app for Mac, in my opinion. I find the Mac OS unstable quite frequently, and not nearly as reliable as Windows 2000.
While I enjoy the Mac, there is a reason that 95% of the population prefers Windows, and price and business practices by Microsoft are only part of the story. As a complete package with the ability to exploit everything you want your computer to do, Windows remains the superior product. I've been using beta XP for almost four months, and find it to be the best version yet. While I'm concerned about the licensing arrangement, and possible sniffer software, I believe XP will be flying off the shelves.
Mac had better adapt, or it will die. Fancy titanium cases are cool, but coffeehouse prices and closed architecture are leading it down the same spiral as another superior product that should still exist - the Amiga.
Apple doesn't even see fit to provide 3.5 floppy access and all at a cost 3 times as much as a comparable PC!
Hohoho!
Oh bTW did I mention thaqt A LONG time ago, before LOTS of Current Apple Folk were touting the ...ummm debatable attributes of Apple machines, I used a Radio Shack CoCo to run programs and access the Pre-Internet? Like Apple it used a 68x processor with an external clock.
If you wanted to go to the trouble of learning machine language it was a pretty cool box.
Still wouldn't measure up to a PC though...
prisoner6
Or they like girly-man coffee like hazelnut goat puke caramel that they sell at Starbucks! LOL :)
prisoner6
Apple doesn't even see fit to provide 3.5 floppy access and all at a cost 3 times as much as a comparable PC!
Hohoho!
Apple machines have been user upgradeable for years. Processors, drives, memory, PCI cards. Where have you been?
I haven't used a 3.5 inch floppy in years and I'm happy not to have to pay for a drive that supports them....
3 times as much as a comparable PC...... Not a chance! (of course, no one's ever going to agree on comparable)
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