I work on a Mac (ProTools) and surf on a PC (email and everything else)... There are a lot of parallels that can be drawn between the Mac as Edison and PC as Berliner systems. The technologically superior/more robust and the commercially successful very often do not take the same position in the race, though the reasons aren't always evident. But look at how long, in spite of the massive success of Windows, Mac has been around (and don't even get me started on the can't-live-without-it iPod). Edison stuck around a good long time, too, by pretty much the same method -- make a better product. If the old man wasn't already deaf and hadn't abandoned records by the time the Depression hit... well, I guess there's a lot of 'what-if' over which one might speculate.
I'm still not letting go of my PC for internet stuff, if only because my livelihood will never be jeopardized by virii if my Mac never goes online. But Peter's right; I've known plenty of PC users who feel comme si, comme sa about Mac vs. PC (Ken Kessler of Stereophile notwithstanding -- he hates the company of Apple, not necessarily the products), while every Mac owner I know would rather have a root canal than boot up a PC. (There, I tried to get it back on subject a little.) Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Fraser" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 5:58 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Ebay Watched Item relisted spoof??? > at risk of sounding like a gouged or cracked 78 (look! he got back > on-topic!), one easy way to find help is to go here with credit card in > hand: > > http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa > > as with anything else, there's always a point where it's time to cut > one's losses and move on. the amount of money time and grief each person > is able/willing to spend varies, but at some point enough is enough, and > they just go buy a mac. > > and i know of not one person who has gone over to the Mac side, and then > returned to windows. > > -- peter > > On Nov 22, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Rich wrote: > >> The real sad news is that IE-7 and Vista offer no improvement on the >> present situation. >> >> Most people who end up with an infected computer have absolutely no idea >> how to install an >> alternative to either internet explorer or either outlook let alone how >> to keep all of the other >> deadly windows "features" from running quietly in the background. Nor >> do they have any idea >> how to find someone who can help them. >> >> Rich >> >> On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:11:34 -0800, Peter Fraser wrote: >> >>> sure there were a few Mac virii back in the Jurassic era, but I >>> haven't used Hypercard for at least a decade, and thus feel safe. It >>> took Gates and crew to truly inspire the scriptkiddies to their >>> current heights of achievement! is the number of windoze virii in >>> the tens of thousands, or the hundreds of thousands now? >> >>> your basic advice is extremely sound - if you don't feel like >>> spending $600 on a new Mac (firewall built into the OS, standard, >>> btw), at least chuck anything with the name "Outlook" in its title, >>> for safety as well as ease of use. >> >>> -- peter >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Phono-L mailing list >> [email protected] >> >> Phono-L Archive >> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ >> >> Support Phono-L >> http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > > Support Phono-L > http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank >
