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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. ![]() 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. |
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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. |
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![]() 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? |
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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. |
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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. -- There’s no point crying over spilled 4-Methylcyclohexanemethanol. |
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On 1/27/2014 7:20 PM, BAR wrote:
In article , says... 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? You have never lost a file from the infamous Office save function? Not that I know of. If I did, it must not have been very important. |
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On 1/27/14, 10:55 AM, Poco Loco 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. Robust doesn't mean fast. |
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