Wow, this latest round of messages constitutes one of the nicest, most informative and useful threads on this subject I've read in a while. Congratulations to all of you who have participated recently.
I am certainly a Mac bigot. But I no longer see Mac and OS X as inherently vastly superior to Windows technology. I occasionally have need to run Windows (XP Pro) and I must say that although I find bits of the user experience clunky (probably only because they are different from what I am used to on OS X), by and large, the platform is stable and relatively pleasant to use. And I know I pay a premium in price and other intangible ways for remaining an OS X loyalist. But there are three programs on OS X that are not special-purpose applications but without which I cannot imagine my day, and they all run only on OS X and, as far as I can tell at least, have no real functional quality equivalents on Windows: * NoteTaker/NoteShare from AquaMinds Software (an OS X only shop) * iListen (voice dictation and command software from MacSpeech) * Pages (Apple's thoroughly brilliang word processor cum page layout application) There are *rough* equivalents of these on Win XP, but I've looked at them and they all pale in comparison; I suspect anyone who knew the above programs well and compared them to their Win counterparts would agree. But, like Rob Cozens, I tell people now when they ask me what kind of computer to buy, to take into account: FIRST, the softwrare they want or need to run SECOND, whether they need to be file or app-level compatible with computers at work or school THIRD, whether they expect me to help them if they run into problems. Because like my wife's housekeeper, I don't do Windows! But I also no longer bash them. Dan _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
