Rob, I think that your response to new computer buyers is the best advice anyone could ever give.
I bought a Mac in 1985 and it was my first computer. I bought it for 2 reasons, first, after 17 years in the computer industry, it was the first personal computer I could rationalize because I couldn't see going home at night and doing stuff I had been doing all day, working with command line computers. Second, for a couple of years I had been designing a way of designing boats on a computer and was not satisfied with either the S100 bus computers, the Apple II or the IBM PC. Shortly after the Mac came out, Andrew Mason came out with MacSurf - a programme that manipulated a surface in 3D space on a Mac Plus. I bought the Mac. I have never owned a PC until 2 years ago when I needed to use some group conferencing software to communicate with a group of geographically dispersed clients. I used VirtualPC up until MS purchased the company and made it impossible to run on a Mac. Then I used Timbuktu to use the PC from my Mac. Additionally, I have had to deal with the fact that most of my clients use a PC. My concession there was to adopt MS Office as my business software of choice, bugs and all. Rev is an extension of this circumstance where I need to design software for my PC audience while still using my Mac for my own and a few clients' work. I can see where you would like the work arrangement you have and would go with the platform that delivered it. In my orientation, I would wait until it became available on the Mac, if it ever did. Looks like ink input is available for OS 10. I definitely prefer Palm script to the tiny keyboard of the Blackberry. Anyway... I'm definitely in the Mac niche with a nod the PC niche... Jim on 7/9/06 12:28 PM, Rob Cozens wrote: > Jim, > > Your response to my post could have been written by me -- four years ago. > > My first personal computer was an original IBM PC. My second was a > Mac SE/3O, and I never owned a computer running Windows until I > bought a Motion M13OO Tablet PC. > > When friends asked, "should I buy a Mac or a PC ?", my original > response was, "find the software you need and buy the computer that > it runs on." After watching friends' experiences, I amended that to > include "But most people seem to have an easier time learning how to > use a Mac." I would grit my teeth and smile when friends who set > out to buy a Mac came home with Circuit City's "computer de jour" -- > and asked me for help when the damn thing crashed. > > I would smile smugly while watching my son and my brother-in-law, > both certified Microsoft engineers, struggle to install a new device > on my brother's PC. And I said to myself "NO WAY!" when "Pirates > of the Silicon Valley" (or a PBS documentary of the same genre) > concluded that Apple lost the O/S war when Windows replaced MS/DOS. > > But times have changed, and I would suggest that every "Mac bigot" -- > to use Dan Shafer's term affectionately -- who believes this is still > the state of the Windows platforms should test her/his perception as > it applies to today's technology. > > After 15 years of Mac ownership, I wouldn't buy another Apple > computer that doesn't support ink input and profile screen > orientation. My keyboard sits in a drawer, and virtually never sees > the light of day. > > The pen is mightier than the mouse! > > Rob Cozens > CCW, Serendipity Software Company > > "And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; > Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee." > > from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631) > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- www.TalentSeeker.ca www.HiringSmart.ca/ns www.KeepingTheBest.ca/ns <http://www.OwnYourFuture-net.com> Own Your Future Consulting Services Limited, 23 Shoal Cove Road, Seabright, Nova Scotia, Canada. B3Z 3A9 Phone: 902-823-2339. Fax: 902-823-2139 _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution