Hi Sam...thanks again, but you and I will just have to
disagree, in a freindly way over a beer? LOL...Apple was
so late getting even DVDs in their machines that some of
us thought that we would have to buy a Windoz box to get
one. (BTW...how long for a DVD burner in a Mac?--too
long) The refusual of Mac, until just the last several
years to upgrade its bus speed to anywhere close to
Windoz boxes was very disappointing to many of us.
You may be correct on some of the integration points, but
now that windoz has upgraded and made comptable some of
its network boxes and server software, the two can talk
and live together. Actually, I think that X with its
Unix/Linux like base may be better for integration of
Windoz and Mac OS than both of their older system
software. Apple gets a plus for that!
You may be a bit behind however, on upgrades...before
windoz had some real difficulty in upgrading, but I had
no, none, problems going from 95 to 98 and to ME (Now
that is on a relatively new machine but not brand new
either,--Maybe in the past but not now are there those
problems.) I don't know about XP, I have not purchased
it yet but am planning too.
In contrast, my friends tell me the upgrade from 9.1 or
9.2 to X is scary when you try to use many of the
applications in Classic...they are slow, they have
bugs...I just upgraded to the new MS office in 9.1.x and
it is so slow I can't believe it. But, I will upgrade to
X but only if the Appletalk stack is workable (it was
gone in X) for my network (PCMacLan)...X.x.x brings back
the Appletalk stack and it works, my 30 or so computer
club friends say. Also, I suspect TCP/IP is stronger in
X...but...we will see.
I am not sure about your assertion/data about industries
using Macs on a wide spread basis (The US Army
does)...last not-for-profits I worked for took them out.
Many industries never had them except for multi-media,
some internet stuff, etc.
Good discusion! Thanks for your politeness and good
thinking. Now, where are we going to get that beer?
I still say we are singing the same tune...neither one of
us wants to see problems with Mac and both want them to
succeed.
Best regards,
Bob
--
Robert Hanson
"Social Studies--Don't Leave
School Without Them.",NCSS Slogan
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