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Skriven 2005-03-26 21:13:32 av Daniel O'Leary (1:130/1015.0)
     Kommentar till en text av JEAN PARROT
Ärende: Re: Mac.
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On 03/26/2005 09:35 AM, JEAN_PARROT wrote:

>        Hello Daniel ! 
>
>        I have to agree with you Daniel, the Mac is a fine machine. My
>  only complaint is their cost. Also, I do not think that a Mac user
>  would be able to do what I did last week on this Thinkpad running
>  XP, and maybe they would not have needed to do it.

Since I don't know what you did on your ThinkPad, I'll  reserve judgement on
whether a Mac user can do it or not. I've done lots of stuff on Macs that make
windows users cringe (grin).  You may be correct, in that it may have been a
task that does not need to be done - I have seen alot of that on the Windows
side, and experienced it many times myself.  Windows is widely deployed where I
work, and I'm fortunate and clever enough to have made unix computers a
requirement for the work I normally do.  It does not give me a get out of
Windows free card though, as there are many people who insist on creating
reasons to keep windows a requirement for what they do. A classic example of
this is the website that requires using Explorer, even though there is no
legitimate reason for doing so with only text and basic graphic web pages in
the mix.

>        When my son's Mac does not work, he gets in the car and drive
>  to a repair shop. With any Windows OS, my systems have never seen a
>  repair shop.

Repair shops are used for several things including broken hardware, as well as
screwed system software, application software and the like. Go to any PC repair
shop and you'll find tons of Windows machines in there. 
What your son does to correct his probelm, may in part depend upon how familar
he is with the facets of troubleshooting on the platform, which is indeed more
challenging with the more complex OS versions that are comming out now.  My
systems see the shop when hardware that i cannot repair myself fails - Never
for OS or applications. Hardware faults occurr rarely, though I have observed
them  more frequently now that Macs use the same hard disks and power supplies
as are found in the common Windows PC.  I've had great luck with the hardware
even with the sheer amount of use and abuse my systems get from being on and
online 24/7 (baring thunderstorm-induced power outages) and used by my family
members who range from 3 years, to 47 of age, as well as anyone else who
chooses to connect to them via the net.

>        I heard that Apple is getting out of the PC side of their
>  business and dedicating all their might to the iPod like market.

I've heard rumours of the demise of the Apple Computer for decades.  What
you've heard  is a new version of the same old lie. What I've observed is the
shocking trend I mentioned before - people actually checking their other stuff
out, since they like their music stuff, and in some cases buying it.

> Have a great day.
>  F-86 pilot.

I will and you do the same.  Have a happy Easter.  I am enjoying the
conversation, though this echo is not my normal hangout.  There are not a lot
of software solutions for Internet/Fidonet BBSing that still support dialup on
the Mac side. The reason I chimed in in the first place was I spotted the word
"Mac" in the subject line while I was importing messages into my BBS.

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