On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 06:47:41 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 11/21/13, 11:09 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:27:19 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 11/21/13, 8:25 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:18:42 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 11/21/13, 6:16 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:56:31 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Or get an Apple and . .


... not own a computer, just an appliance.


I enjoy having computers that are as reliably solid as my refrigerator.

That is fine if you are willing to let Apple decide what you want to
do with your appliance.

My Dutch neighbor and I had this discussion a few years ago and he was
telling me about how wonderful his Apple stuff was. Then he got
interested in drones and suddenly discovered how limiting the Apple
hardware and software was for anything Apple didn't invent. He has
Windows and Android machines now.


All the software I need is available for Apple computers...word
processing, spread sheets, presentation, web design, financial,
internet, photo processing, et cetera.

As long as you are happy with what they sell you and have no interest
in changing anything, you are the perfect Apple customer.

I think out of the box quite a lot and the PC is just a tool with a
lot of different things I can do with it. You said it before, I am a
hobbyist. I just bought a pair of binoculars with a camera in it. Good
thing I have a PC, Apple is not supported



If there were some Windoze software I wanted to run, I likely could run
it faster than you can on my Apple computers under VMWARE Fusion, which
also makes available the hardware on my Apple computers. Faster, because
I have newer computers than you have, with faster CPUs (both have multi
core I7 processors), more and faster RAM (8 GB minimum), and more recent
circuitry.

But I haven't come across any Windoze software I want to run. A pair of
binocs with a camera in it is not on my holiday "want" list.

You should buy my iMac when I get ready to sell it so you have a modern
piece of gear.

It's for sure that whatever you have is much better than whatever anyone else has.

John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!