Jonathan writes, <Aside from the obvious, video/audio editing, and such basic things like Internet/e-mail/word processing, what else is a mac good for? I don't really play too many games. I like Hardware and stuff like that. What do you guys/gals do with your mac aside from the usual?>
Well, I only do "the usual" with my Macs -- perhaps even less of "the usual" than a lot of people since I don't do the video and audio stuff and I don't play games either -- but the reason I originally fell in love with Mac computers was because unlike PCs (especially at first but even now) they were seriously user friendly and didn't present me with technical problems and issues which were over my head (until recently, anyway!). However, another use for Macs which was once quite popular, and maybe still is, was graphics and layout design (i.e., desktop publishing, which was actually my introduction to the Mac back in 1986 where I did this for a corporate travel agency). Now that I have PageMaker, I plan to import my own writing into it so I can make it "look professional," even though this is just for me, not something I'm doing for a living. Probably by now people are doing this on PCs with other applications now, so it's no longer anything necessary or even special to do desktop publishing or other graphics design with Macs, but there was a time when, while the PC was still the majority computer everyplace else, anyone and everyone who did publishing and graphics were using Macs. But you did ask what Macs were good for, right? ;-) -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> 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-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
