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-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Stenquist <[email protected] >Subject: Re: Mac Yosemite--"This is a bug, not a feature" > > > >Paul via phone > >> On Aug 18, 2016, at 4:11 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 8/18/2016 3:01 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> It has also been my personal experience that if I want to "just get >>> things done", most of the time Linux boxes work that way from >>> installation, whereas it takes quite a bit of work installing usable >>> editors, compilers, cygwin and other tools on Windows machines. >> >> Different level of "just get things done" there. > >Same here. I have to "get things done. " Frequently more than 1000 words a day >of well researched copy, lots of photo processing and countless >communications. In a previous life I had to write command lines in ASCII >Express just to communicate or send files to NY. That's crippling, My Retina >5K iMac hauls ass through any work load. The 4 Ghz i7 processor makes >Photoshop as fast as a text based program. SSD helps with that, and 32 gigs of >RAM is more then enough for anything I do. With a Linux box I would sit there >and stare at the wall. And starve. We're not all computer scientists. In fact >I bet the number is less than a hundredth of one percent. >> I don't need a bunch programmer's tools. I need Open Office, a Mozilla >> browser & Thunderbird plus whatever level of image editing tools. >> >> This system is general use, internet & film scanning. My other system is >> built specifically to make PhotoShop scream and I don't have anything on >> it that doesn't enhance PhotoShop. >> >> >>>> I'm not anti-Mac either as such. But they cost more than building your >>>> own. >>> >>> For a long time, Mac and Windows machines of similar performance didn't >>> have that huge of a price differential. Particularly if you bypassed the >>> Apple tax on memory and drives, bought the system with minimal memory >>> and drive and upgraded it yourself. Lately, Apple has completely >>> abandoned anyone who wants anything but the slimmest, lightest, >>> daintiest machine, particularly in the field of expandability. >> >> The similarity in cost/performance between Mac and Windoze systems holds >> true for PRE-built systems; if you just want to go to the store and buy >> a system, bring it home, unbox it & turn it on. And the "roll your own" >> to get a lot more computer for a given dollar strategy worked against >> PRE-built Windoze systems the same as it did against Mac systems. >> >> Apple's current direction only increases the cost savings advantage of >> "roll your own" against Mac systems. The advantage over PRE-built >> Windoze systems has only increased a small amount in comparison. >> >> There are plenty of PRE-built Windoze systems that match Mac in terms of >> "slimmest, lightest, daintiest" and lack of expandability. For a given >> price point it seems like the only major difference is the Macs are all >> i5 processors and the Windoze machines are all i7 processors. Although, >> you can still buy Windoze gaming systems that have a DVD/Blu-ray drive >> standard. >> >> I can build my own, save a lot of money, get a lot more performance than >> either a Mac OR a PRE-built Windoze will offer, and I can install >> Windoze on it. Microsoft won't care. >> >> Installing Mac OS on a "roll your own" system - Hackentosh not >> withstanding - is just not on. >> >> -- >> Science - Questions we may never find answers for. >> Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
