Jon wrote: > >Many people use Macs with little or no problems because they use a computer >for a single purpose. They will reliably run the same 2-4 programs over >and >over again without crashing. My aunt ran Quicken, MSWord, MSPublisher, >Excel >and Internet Explorer on her PC for four years. (That's all she has a need >for.) She never, ever changed anything, but the computer had constant >problems -- all OS related. I went nuts trying to keep the thing from >crashing with blue-screen o' death in Win95 for four years. > >Bought her a MacG4 last year. It runs MacOS 9.04. She again runs the >same >programs, never changes the settings and never, ever crashes. > >Is her experience typical? Who knows. The Macs in my office work >decently, >but I can't stand working on them if I need to do anything complex. > >Perhaps it's all subjective :-)
My Mac, at least, works fine for a lot more than just 2 to 4 programs. I have a brand new (well, purchased last summer) very nice PC that I use for a lot of things, but on my Mac I still run Photoshop, Finale (a professional quality music notation program), a couple of different sequencers (some with digital audio recording), Quark Express, and Macromedia Director, in addition to various internet software, M$ Word, Excel, and Access, and some games. And this is a Mac that I bought in late 1992. The system has crashed on me a grand total of 3 times in almost 10 years. If you do good preventative maintenance on any machine, any platform, you can get pretty good results. For the most part, good PM is the same on both -- I run Norton Disk Doctor about once a month and defrag the hard drive whenever it needs it. On the Mac, I also zap the P-RAM and rebuild the desktop file 3 or 4 times a year. I'm planning to partition the external hard drive for my Mac and install Linux, because I've been wanting to learn it. I'll probably also do that on my PC. Does anyone know how well Linux on Mac gets along with Linux on a PC? I imagine there shouldn't be too much trouble, but does anyone on the list have any experience with this? Reggie Bautista _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
