Especially the older Macs their architeture was so closed you couldn't get most
of the hardware that non-Mac pcs had access to which to some small degree
changed
with the powerMacs and now with the MacIntel PCs.
With all the news being bandied about the new MacIntel systems the let you run
Mac OS X and Windows XP dual-boot system that still hasn't convinced me to
switch from the PC. Especially those new Apple comericials that try an obvious
attempt to convince users to switch by dumbing down and insulting the user's
intelligence by portraying the PC as a man in a suit and the Mac as a young man
in a t-shirt.
Why should I switch from the PC. What I have experience with working with for
over
35 years since 1980 when the first IBM PC jr came out in August of that year
and I've never touched a Mac since High School becuase they didn't have the
huge software library of what Windows PCs had back then, they weren't as open
as PCs then and the PCs allowed you to run either DOS, IBM DOS, Windows 3.1,
95, Linux, unix ect to let you run the PC they way you wanted it to run which
is still very true today. Not many Macs could let you get away with that with
the exception of Virtual PC but you had to
have a certain model of Mac to accomplish that feat.
Sure now the new MacIntel PCs will let you do what the PCs have been doing
since the 80's but the truth is it took Apple over 35 years to figure that out
and actually implement native hardware multiboot systems without the use of
Virtual PC. That's too little to late for people in the PC world so for these
reasons now I'm still committed to the PC. ;)
I know what a Mac is, yes, and I know what a PC is, yes but if apple has to
keep making those lame brianed MAc and PC commericials for dummies commericials
I'll scream.
Marc Sims
Data Technician I
Prince George's Community College
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/10/06 1:49 AM >>>
At 01:21 AM 6/10/2006, Marc Sims typed:
>But other than that Windows Vista Beta 2 works fine and I like it.
>Its cool. It copies almost every aspect of the Mac X OS.
I know BG has a fixation on copying Apple but it needs to stop
someplace. I hate Macs because its so difficult to find out what is
really going on under the hood. I don't mind a rotary engine but at
least let me look at the darned thing.
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
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