At 12:34 PM 15/06/2009, you wrote:
LOL!
Except for when you wish to use flight analysis software, or active
sysnc or any of the hundereds of things a mac just cant do! (Unless
you have a intel mac on which windows can be run in which case you
are paying double for the same hardware as you would for a PC of the same spec.
Windows XP for the last 7 years here, no reformat, no spyware, no
viruses. If you were sending 3 weeks reloading windows a year you
were doing something wrong, particularly visiting some of those more
eclectic movie websites from which most of the bad stuff comes from,
then clicking yes to every dialog box that pops up.
Quicktime is an apple product that cannot even play its own files
apparently, not a startling recommendation.
If anyone wants one I have 2 mac powerbooks for sale, I gave OSX a
try for a year and found them to be vastly overrated, and extremely
limited in the range of software available.
I better lookout though, the jobsians are the most fanatical of all
religions with their motto being "Style over substance all the way"
(-:
Regards
Dave L
Have to agree. While you may get the odd enthusiast writing
specialist gliding software for Mac's or Linux the reality faced by
anybody making any commercial product that needs PC
support/configuration is that 90% or so of PC's are Windows/Intel machines.
I've been running Windows XP for a few years on this machine, a few
months on the lab machine and nearly a year on a eeePC for field
support and communications. No problems, no reloads/reformats etc.
Regular updates, router to hide behind and paid for antivirus
software. I did find that another half a gig of Ram in this machine
made it seem about 10 times as fast.
The eeePC works fine using my Samsung A412 as a wireless modem and I
get net access just about everywhere I've been. I like the other
eeePC running Linux as it boots faster, but it won't work with the
phone. This could be that it isn't set up correctly but whenever I do
a web search for help on this the articles appear to be in English
but may as well be written in Swahili. How to download and install
new Linux programs is totally opaque to me. I did manage to unlock it
out of kiddie mode.
Mike
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