On 1/27/14, 11:25 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 1/27/14, 11:15 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:21:04 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
On 1/27/14, 9:58 AM, Boating All Out wrote:
In article ,
says...
I've had very good luck with the HP Pavilian series laptops, one
Vista,
one Win 7. I suppose now that I said that this one will freeze up
and
die. I've had it since 2009 and used it extensively everyday at the
guitar shop until about a year ago when I brought it home. I keep
the
Win 7 in reserve and am also getting familiar with the iMac.
Anything an Apple product does better than a Windows based product?
Seems to me the only reason for Apple is the "precious" factor.
I'm a gamer, so I never considered one.
I think the media applications work better and slicker on the Mac
computers than on the Windoze computers. I also think that much of the
software common to both vehicles, such as Firefox, Thunderbird, and
many
others, works more robustly on the Macs. The Windoze office suite seems
the same on both vehicles to me, and WORD is just as annoying on
Macs as
it is on Windoze machines. 
What do you mean by 'robust'. I've run Firefox, IE, and Chrome on this
old XP, and find all of them
very 'robust' - if you mean fast.
To me, Macs and the stuff that runs on them are easier to customize,
and
the real estate in the OSX directories is easier to find. And
there's no
damned Windoze registry.
From what I have seen, there are a zillion more games available for
Windoze machines than Mac machines.
What do you mean by "the real estate in the OSX directories is easier to
find"?
The average user has no routine reason to search for and find
directories in the operating system, Apple or Windows. Do you mean
applications or programs?
No, I mean things like libraries and plist files or in windows, the
registry and other arcana.
There are settings in the apple libraries I sometimes need to get to to
adjust the way a program works or looks, or to make sure I eliminate all
the crud a program I've deleted has scattered about the hard drive.
Apple's OS has ways to seek out, find and modify or get rid of this
stuff if you know where to look.
As an example, there are settings in Thunderbird and Firefox CSS files
in Mac OS that allow a user to more heavily customize the appearance on
screen of more aspects of the programs. You have to know how to make
certain libraries visible and what to look for once you find the right
file and of course how to modify the setting you want.
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