Love the Ridley Scott "1984" Apple commercial. Very pertinent to the Apple dominance and control nowdays!
Dave Long From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Borgelt Sent: Monday, 11 March 2013 12:26 PM To: Jim Staniforth; Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Flight recorders/planning software I got a Asus eeePC for $198 (WinXP)at Hardly Normal's one weekend on special. Also got another for Ron Sanders a few months ago for $236 (Win7). Use it just for your gliding apps. Runs instrument support software and all the gliding analysis programs as well as email and web browsing. Perfect for taking gliding and if it is lost/stolen/broken you haven't lost much. Why screw around wasting your time with Apple OS? For the Apple fanbois, I've used a desktop belonging to one of my sister's in law and my impressions was: looked nice, seemed well built, great for running Apple software, lots of things done slightly differently from Windows, mainly for the sake of being different. Some of the differences range from annoying to infuriating. I also weakened and bought an ipad mini before Christmas only so I could run Oz Runways (brilliant program BTW). Pity Oz Runways isn't ported to Android or Windows. Fortunately it was in a plain bag for taking home. The ipad is getting used for web surfing and Skype when not in the BD-4. Safari on the mini seems to be a joke. The "go back" button after following a link is prone to opening some random URL. Fine for casual browsing but too often infuriating. I can see the Apple philosophy as when you control the hardware and the software you should have fewer compatibility glitches and adjustments to make to get stuff to work properly but I don't see the price/perfomance payoff. I don't even want to think about running Windows based programs on Macs which need USB or serial to USB comms for connection to external devices. Apple - meh. Mike
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