On 11/17/11 8:42 AM, JustWait wrote:
On 11/17/2011 6:10 AM, X ` Man wrote:
On 11/16/11 10:54 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 16/11/2011 7:53 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 11/16/11 8:50 PM, Canuck57 wrote:


I can buy multiple PCs for the price of one Mac. The PCs run Solaris,
Linux, VirtualBox and Win7 all at once.

And if you mean those under powered little crappy Macs, you get what
you
pay for. Plus in Canada, they don't price them fairly, about 30% more
expensive here. So I boycott the idiots.

Granted, BSD UNIX is better, but I run that in a VM.


That you run cheesy PC's is no concern of mine. My work requires a good
word processor, a good email client, good software to prepare
presentations, and web creation and editing suites, and some other
mainstream business software, All of that runs nicely on my iMac and
Macbook Pro.

OpenOffice
Thunderbird
Firefox
GIMP
KompoZer
Wireshark
VirtualBox
PGP and more.


Dozens of others.

I can run open office, t'bird, firefox, gimp, PGP, kompozer, and
probably virtual box under VM. So what's your point?

His point is that he isn't stuck with a proprietary, overpriced nintendo...


Snerk. I can buy whatever computer tickles my fancy. I switched away
from Windows machines a few years ago. The Apple OS is pretty much Unix
with a candy shell around it. I've programmed a few things, but I'm not
much interested in programming. Never was, though I did learn how to
program in Pascal years ago.

Your comments about Macs are just further evidence of your ignorance. I
simply prefer the Macs these days. Your concept of "overpriced" is just
a reflection of your limited capabilities. The hardware and OS in my
Macs are more than capable of handling my business and personal
computing needs.

On 17/11/2011 8:37 AM, X ` Man wrote:
On 11/17/11 8:42 AM, JustWait wrote:
On 11/17/2011 6:10 AM, X ` Man wrote:
On 11/16/11 10:54 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 16/11/2011 7:53 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 11/16/11 8:50 PM, Canuck57 wrote:


I can buy multiple PCs for the price of one Mac. The PCs run Solaris,
Linux, VirtualBox and Win7 all at once.

And if you mean those under powered little crappy Macs, you get what
you
pay for. Plus in Canada, they don't price them fairly, about 30% more
expensive here. So I boycott the idiots.

Granted, BSD UNIX is better, but I run that in a VM.


That you run cheesy PC's is no concern of mine. My work requires a
good
word processor, a good email client, good software to prepare
presentations, and web creation and editing suites, and some other
mainstream business software, All of that runs nicely on my iMac and
Macbook Pro.

OpenOffice
Thunderbird
Firefox
GIMP
KompoZer
Wireshark
VirtualBox
PGP and more.


Dozens of others.

I can run open office, t'bird, firefox, gimp, PGP, kompozer, and
probably virtual box under VM. So what's your point?

His point is that he isn't stuck with a proprietary, overpriced
nintendo...


Snerk. I can buy whatever computer tickles my fancy. I switched away
from Windows machines a few years ago. The Apple OS is pretty much Unix
with a candy shell around it. I've programmed a few things, but I'm not
much interested in programming. Never was, though I did learn how to
program in Pascal years ago.

You know Pascal is a sissy language for beginners. Probably as far as
you got.

Your comments about Macs are just further evidence of your ignorance. I
simply prefer the Macs these days. Your concept of "overpriced" is just
a reflection of your limited capabilities. The hardware and OS in my
Macs are more than capable of handling my business and personal
computing needs.

Hey, money no object and excluding value for the money, Apple is a good
machine.

But price up a quad-processor laptop with 17" display and 8gb of RAM and
1TB HD, Apple pricing sucks the big one for value and are no better or
different in the end.

--
The reason government can't fix the economic problems as government is
the problem.

On 11/17/11 4:33 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 17/11/2011 8:37 AM, X ` Man wrote:
On 11/17/11 8:42 AM, JustWait wrote:
On 11/17/2011 6:10 AM, X ` Man wrote:
On 11/16/11 10:54 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 16/11/2011 7:53 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 11/16/11 8:50 PM, Canuck57 wrote:


I can buy multiple PCs for the price of one Mac. The PCs run
Solaris,
Linux, VirtualBox and Win7 all at once.

And if you mean those under powered little crappy Macs, you get what
you
pay for. Plus in Canada, they don't price them fairly, about 30%
more
expensive here. So I boycott the idiots.

Granted, BSD UNIX is better, but I run that in a VM.


That you run cheesy PC's is no concern of mine. My work requires a
good
word processor, a good email client, good software to prepare
presentations, and web creation and editing suites, and some other
mainstream business software, All of that runs nicely on my iMac and
Macbook Pro.

OpenOffice
Thunderbird
Firefox
GIMP
KompoZer
Wireshark
VirtualBox
PGP and more.


Dozens of others.

I can run open office, t'bird, firefox, gimp, PGP, kompozer, and
probably virtual box under VM. So what's your point?

His point is that he isn't stuck with a proprietary, overpriced
nintendo...


Snerk. I can buy whatever computer tickles my fancy. I switched away
from Windows machines a few years ago. The Apple OS is pretty much Unix
with a candy shell around it. I've programmed a few things, but I'm not
much interested in programming. Never was, though I did learn how to
program in Pascal years ago.

You know Pascal is a sissy language for beginners. Probably as far as
you got.

Your comments about Macs are just further evidence of your ignorance. I
simply prefer the Macs these days. Your concept of "overpriced" is just
a reflection of your limited capabilities. The hardware and OS in my
Macs are more than capable of handling my business and personal
computing needs.

Hey, money no object and excluding value for the money, Apple is a good
machine.

But price up a quad-processor laptop with 17" display and 8gb of RAM and
1TB HD, Apple pricing sucks the big one for value and are no better or
different in the end.


I mostly use my laptop for checking and writing email while on the road.
No need for a quad processor, 17" laptop for that. My next laptop will
be an iPad.

On 11/17/11 7:25 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:33:12 -0700,
wrote:

On 17/11/2011 8:37 AM, X ` Man wrote:
On 11/17/11 8:42 AM, JustWait wrote:

Your comments about Macs are just further evidence of your ignorance. I
simply prefer the Macs these days. Your concept of "overpriced" is just
a reflection of your limited capabilities. The hardware and OS in my
Macs are more than capable of handling my business and personal
computing needs.

Hey, money no object and excluding value for the money, Apple is a good
machine.

But price up a quad-processor laptop with 17" display and 8gb of RAM and
1TB HD, Apple pricing sucks the big one for value and are no better or
different in the end.

My neighbor, a snowbird from Germany and I have had this Apple/PC
argument a few times and the bottom line is, he doesn't want to know
he has a computer, it is just an appliance to him.
I like computers and I like working with them so it doesn't bother me
knowing I have a computer..


My iMac has a 27" screen, an intel i7 processor, 16 gigabytes of RAM, a
one terabyte hard drive and is "served" by an 8 terabyte Synology
server. Gee, I wonder what apps significant to me I can't run on this
mac and if it is only available under a MS OS, under Windows 7 under
VMware?

For most users, the hardware platform no longer is relevant.

On 11/17/11 8:56 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:39:06 -0500, X ` Man
wrote:

My neighbor, a snowbird from Germany and I have had this Apple/PC
argument a few times and the bottom line is, he doesn't want to know
he has a computer, it is just an appliance to him.
I like computers and I like working with them so it doesn't bother me
knowing I have a computer..


My iMac has a 27" screen, an intel i7 processor, 16 gigabytes of RAM, a
one terabyte hard drive and is "served" by an 8 terabyte Synology
server. Gee, I wonder what apps significant to me I can't run on this
mac and if it is only available under a MS OS, under Windows 7 under
VMware?

For most users, the hardware platform no longer is relevant.


But you don't want to swap a hard drive.


I don't need to...Apple does it for me.

On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:21:22 -0500, X ` Man
wrote:
On 11/17/11 8:56 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:39:06 -0500, X ` Man
wrote:

My neighbor, a snowbird from Germany and I have had this
Apple/PC
argument a few times and the bottom line is, he doesn't want to
know
he has a computer, it is just an appliance to him.
I like computers and I like working with them so it doesn't
bother me
knowing I have a computer..


My iMac has a 27" screen, an intel i7 processor, 16 gigabytes of
RAM, a
one terabyte hard drive and is "served" by an 8 terabyte Synology
server. Gee, I wonder what apps significant to me I can't run on
this
mac and if it is only available under a MS OS, under Windows 7
under
VMware?

For most users, the hardware platform no longer is relevant.


But you don't want to swap a hard drive.




I don't need to...Apple does it for me.
Well that's an inconvenience for you. You have to get out if your
jammies and in to your street clothes toi visit the apple store.

--
2012, the end of an error:-)

In article ,
says...

On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:21:22 -0500, X ` Man
wrote:
On 11/17/11 8:56 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:39:06 -0500, X ` Man
wrote:

My neighbor, a snowbird from Germany and I have had this
Apple/PC
argument a few times and the bottom line is, he doesn't want to
know
he has a computer, it is just an appliance to him.
I like computers and I like working with them so it doesn't
bother me
knowing I have a computer..


My iMac has a 27" screen, an intel i7 processor, 16 gigabytes of
RAM, a
one terabyte hard drive and is "served" by an 8 terabyte Synology
server. Gee, I wonder what apps significant to me I can't run on
this
mac and if it is only available under a MS OS, under Windows 7
under
VMware?

For most users, the hardware platform no longer is relevant.


But you don't want to swap a hard drive.




I don't need to...Apple does it for me.
Well that's an inconvenience for you. You have to get out if your
jammies and in to your street clothes toi visit the apple store.

He's too much of a coward to go out of the house. He expected me to
visit his house. Of course, the coward showed his true colors when I
told him I'd meet him anywhere on public property. Notice he's too
scared to accept? Did anyone except Don expect anything other?

On Nov 18, 11:08*am, iBoaterer wrote:
In article ,
says...







On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:21:22 -0500, X ` Man
wrote:
On 11/17/11 8:56 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:39:06 -0500, X ` Man
*wrote:

My neighbor, a snowbird from Germany and I have had this
Apple/PC
argument a few times and the bottom line is, he doesn't want to
know
he has a computer, it is just an appliance to him.
I like computers and I like working with them so it doesn't
bother me
knowing I have a computer..

My iMac has a 27" screen, an intel i7 processor, 16 gigabytes of
RAM, a
one terabyte hard drive and is "served" by an 8 terabyte Synology
server. Gee, I wonder what apps significant to me I can't run on
this
mac and if it is only available under a MS OS, under Windows 7
under
VMware?

For most users, the hardware platform no longer is relevant.

But you don't want to swap a hard drive.

I don't need to...Apple does it for me.
*Well that's an inconvenience for you. You have to get out if your
jammies and in to your street clothes toi visit the apple store.

He's too much of a coward to go out of the house. He expected me to
visit his house. Of course, the coward showed his true colors when I
told him I'd meet him anywhere on public property. Notice he's too
scared to accept? Did anyone except Don expect anything other?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Well.. I expected you to be hiding behind Snotty's skirt... and looks
like I was right...... as usual!

On 11/18/11 12:37 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:21:22 -0500, X ` Man
wrote:

My iMac has a 27" screen, an intel i7 processor, 16 gigabytes of RAM, a
one terabyte hard drive and is "served" by an 8 terabyte Synology
server. Gee, I wonder what apps significant to me I can't run on this
mac and if it is only available under a MS OS, under Windows 7 under
VMware?

For most users, the hardware platform no longer is relevant.


But you don't want to swap a hard drive.


I don't need to...Apple does it for me.

Like I said, for people who don't want to know they have a computer.



Absurd.

In article , dump-on-
says...

On 11/18/11 12:37 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:21:22 -0500, X ` Man
wrote:

My iMac has a 27" screen, an intel i7 processor, 16 gigabytes of RAM, a
one terabyte hard drive and is "served" by an 8 terabyte Synology
server. Gee, I wonder what apps significant to me I can't run on this
mac and if it is only available under a MS OS, under Windows 7 under
VMware?

For most users, the hardware platform no longer is relevant.


But you don't want to swap a hard drive.


I don't need to...Apple does it for me.

Like I said, for people who don't want to know they have a computer.



Absurd.

No, but maybe behind the times.
It used to be that Apple was like taking a taxi everywhere, and Windows
was basically driving and maintaining your own car.
In terms of the OS, since Windows 7, and to some extent XP, that's
changed.
I've never had to tinker with Windows 7 - not a bit.
I don't know anything about Apple hardware.
I do know that with my Windows systems I can pick and choose among many
vendors to change hardware parts, and improve or fix anything myself
without relying on one vendor.
Pretty much like I can select the type of oil and filters for my car.
Or soup it up.
It's an "ownership" thing.
Saying "I don't need to...Apple does it for me." is no different than
saying "Call a cab, I got no car keys."