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Subject: Windows V Apple MAC

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Name: DAVIDSCOT
Date: November 19, 2002 at 07:32:37 Pacific
Subject: Windows V Apple MAC
OS: Win 98
CPU/Ram: Celeron/128

Comment:

I'm considering trading in my Windows PC for a MAC, but I'm unsure of the real differences between the two or, whether it is worth doing so in this Windows dominated world. Any advice??

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Response Number 1

Name: Chris Hodapp
Date: November 19, 2002 at 09:06:10 Pacific
Subject: Windows V Apple MAC

Reply:

BEFORE the flames consume this thread, and the Mac fundamentalists jump all over M$ Windoze morons, and Microsoft loyalists jump all over Macdinks:
Try someone else's Mac, mess with it, see how you like it, and so on. Look online and see what other people think. Foresee issues that you know you will experience... know what software you will need... and so on.
Your average Windows PC is made of dumpster parts and parts found in dumpsters, and your [more expensive] average Mac is made of much higher-quality parts. Then again Apple is the only one that makes the Mac.
I hate Windows, and I like MacOS better. However, Windows has the software. Virtual PC for Mac can run Windows and run that software, but there are probably some freeware or open source programs that can do the same.
Don't ask me, I'm just a little Linux geek.
[Linux runs on both PCs and Macs, in addition to about 40 other architectures]

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Response Number 2

Name: bobw
Date: November 19, 2002 at 09:49:46 Pacific
Subject: Windows V Apple MAC

Reply:

Take a look at this page for some info;
http://www.applelinks.com/macmessiah/
mac101.shtml

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Response Number 3

Name: Writer
Date: November 20, 2002 at 05:14:58 Pacific
Subject: Windows V Apple MAC

Reply:

I work in publishing in the UK where Macs
are the industry standard. So I work on a
Mac all day. My wife has a PC at home.
If you want to work with words and
graphics, then a Mac, equipped with
QuarkXpress and Photoshop, is streets
ahead of anything that Microsoft does.
This extends to your own personal
photographs if you're into that. The IPhoto
program, downloadable from the Mac
website is brilliant.
Apart from all that, Macs are just so
beautiful, aren't they? And so user-friendly
and easy to work with. And they don't
crash. And the latest Mac operating
system, OX.1, is simply stunning.
I don't have anything against PCs - the
one we have at home works fine. But the
Mac does everything the PC can - and a
lot more.

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Response Number 4

Name: MikeMcHoffa
Date: November 25, 2002 at 12:04:43 Pacific
Subject: Windows V Apple MAC

Reply:

I just switched in july. I must say I am glad I did. But before you jump aboard, try it out, like Chris up there said. That's what I did, and after a couple times messing thru it I loved it. It did take time to get used to it. I HIGHLY recommend the book "Mac OS X Second Edition MISSING MANUAL"
it tells you EVERYTHING you will need to know and then some. It reads really easy and it has an index of "where'd it go?" to find where things you are used to in windows are in a mac equivalent... I will never go back to using windows again (though i have to use my mac and a windows machine together at work, which by the way networking them is simple)

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