On 4 Mar 2006 at 0:40, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > Indeed. I'm not saying PCs (or rather, Windows) sucks. It's just not > as fun, or as easy to use in my opinion.
That's a very subjective statement, though, and I think that's why some people react negatively to it. I think one's emotional reactions to an OS are basically conditioned by one's experience with it. I find it extraordinarily unwieldy to function on a Mac. Yes, I can get things done (I once had to use a Mac to transpose an aria, and had only a couple of hours to do it; I got it done, but it would have taken me about half the time on Windows), but it's not "fun." Of course, I don't see using Windows as "fun," either -- I don't think about Windows at all. I just use my programs, and think less about the programs than I think about the work I'm doing, the piece I'm working on in Finale, the programming problem I'm trying to solve in Access, the web page I happen to be reading in Mozilla. Windows itself completely fades into the background. Of course, the "fun" reaction may be something that only those who have facility in both Windows and Mac could ever experience. I can't because I'm too inexperienced with OS X to be comfortable. Were I working regularly on both, perhaps I'd find the Mac more "fun," too. But somehow, I think it's more likely that once I had the chops on both, both OS's would just recede into the background of the work I was doing. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
