On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 11:18 AM, (G-Books) wrote: > Compare this to Mac OS (9 or X) where you plug in a USB or FireWire > drive and (*GASP*) it just works!
I have to add to this discussion, too. A few weeks ago I was using an Olympus digital camera borrowed from my department at the university. After I was done taking pictures I came back to download them to a computer. Now, the department has IBM Thinkpads and Dell Inspirions. (No Macs! And this is the "New Media Institute!") They have several different digital cameras, and my professor had specifically given me the Olympus because, as he said, "This camera tends to work better with those IBMs." I had bad feelings about trying this on a PC, but I thought I'd give it a shot, remembering my prof's words. I got out a Stinkpad - I mean, Thinkpad - and plugged the USB cable from the camera into the computer. Surprise, surprise... Windows "new hardware found" message pops up and asks if I want to install drivers. I knew it was futile but I thought, why not, and did the "search for drivers" deal, and of course, it couldn't find any. I decided to reboot (because we know how Windows looooves those reboots) with the camera still plugged in and this time the computer did not recognize the camera at all. I was getting really annoyed because I was short on time and working toward a fast-approaching deadline. Fortunately, I had my iBook with me. I took it out, plugged in the camera, which immediately showed up as a drive on the desktop, then opened iPhoto and imported the pictures. Simple as that. Took less than a minute. I could've spent another 15-30 minutes (at least!) futzing with that IBM trying to get it to work, but hey, I don't have time for that kind of crap. (I felt like the Switcher commercial about the girl who saved Christmas.) :) And yet there are still plenty of people in my program (Master of Internet Technology) who CONTINUE to scoff at and make fun of Macs, even though they've never used one (or if they have, it was at least 10 years ago) AND their computers are constantly breaking! Seriously - there are 27 people in my program and the count is up to 10 now of how many people's peecee laptops have had major problems requiring them to be out of commission for days to weeks this semester! Meanwhile, I cruise along with my iBook, getting all my work done and having time to spare. -- **** Amber Rhea **** [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tangerinecs.com/~amber /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect Open Standards! -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
