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On 4/1/14, 3:02 PM, Boating All Out wrote:
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On 4/1/14, 2:02 PM, Boating All Out wrote:
In article ,
says...

A Mac's niche in the working world used to be in graphics and video. That edge is practically non-existent these days.

The place I work is an engineering and software company. *All* of the work gets done on PCs running Windows. The President is a Mac guy, so he and 3-4 others have Macs on their desks for email, spreadsheets, and letters. They bought Macs for the conference rooms. They are fiddly and hard to use. Nearly everyone rolls their eyes and hates them.

I worked a project at one place where the clients were using Macs.
Had to convert many files so they could read them.
1995.
They eventually ****canned the Macs over a lot of protests.
People get attached to their favorite "toys".

Right, because nothing much has changed in personal computers in the
last 20 years... Sheesh.

That's why I provided the year. I'm hoping in the intervening time span
Mac addressed this weakness.
I understand they have. That's my only experience with Mac.
I recall the IT manager there showing me how "slick" the Mac GUI was.
But I was unimpressed. Made the appropriate "oh's" an "ah's" however.
I'm sure he got over the loss of his Mac just fine.
Some people dwell on the what "wallpaper" to put on their computer.
What screensaver or "theme."
Never was into that.

The file formats for the "big" apps seem the same on the mac or windoze
platforms... Office, Photoshop, et cetera. I've not had problems having
clients use my Mac files or importing their Windoze word files, et cetera.