[prisoner6]

You are correct in that I pretty much ignore Apple stuff except for the Mac Se I use as a word processor. (only because it's small and fits on the desk in my bedroom.)

Don't wanna know, don't care. Every time I did check 'em they cost WAY more than what I would pay for a similar PC.

And the salesman would show me cute stuff I would NEVER use and claim it was a techno breakthrough.

Yeah right!

As to the 3.5 flopp0ies just what DO YOU use to transfer between machines? Especially when you are moving from one office to another and the bixes may not even have cd-roms?

3.5's are convenient, cheap and universal. Why I can even use them to transfer doc files to some Apple machines!

Seriously Apple always bugged me - much like Compaq - with the proprietary systems. Need something ya gotta go back to the slaes people.

Not my slice of pie.

prisoner6

[zog]

--the new macs mostly use wireless airport for data transfer around the office and home. On older machines you can just lan them easily if you want, with a cheap serial cable, or use ethernet. it's what I do here, a lot of times a file or program won't fit conveniently on a flop. Or I guess you can use a zip drive or something similar. Lotsa ways to transfer data. BUT, I still like the flops occassionally, not to much, but occassionally. Most likely within a few years most puters will all be using hot swappable giganto hdd's anyway, or heck, who knows where RAM is going now, it could be that there is a breakthrough there, cheapo memory sticks that hold mucho gigs..or dvd r/w perhaps.