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Re: I Don't Have to Use Windows



At 19:46 -0700 8/1/01, Paul O. Johnson wrote:

I hate to say it, but I really believe the remaining Mac afficionados
are fighting a losing battle. Even though Mac OS X has gotten good
reviews, I'm afraid the Apple line is dying out.

I don't plan on getting into the religious wars over this, but I have
to respectfully disagree with your prognostication. If you haven't
used the Mac OS since Win-95, you have missed a lot. I never turn my
computer off anymore, and I have to restart it less than once every
couple of weeks. I have to use Windoze machines at work, and I
continually find my G4 Mac at home to be faster and easier to use
than even the fastest and newest PCs we have at work. Furthermore, on
those rare occasions when they have problems, I can usually fix them
myself. And I almost never have to worry about the spate of viruses
and other invasive software that seems to be the bane of the PC
world's existence these days.

As for dying out, I just returned from the AAPT Summer meeting in
Rochester, where my informal observation was that about half the
computers I saw there were Macs, including numerous iMacs in the
display area, and Titanium PowerBooks all over the place. It
certainly was the highest fraction of Macs that I have seen at an
AAPT meeting in some time. The large majority of the exhibitors had
both Mac and Windows machines in their booths, and there were several
that had only Macs. About half the computers used in the sessions I
attended were Macs, and most of the ones I saw being used at informal
gatherings in the lobbies were also. This is the first year that I
can recall Macs being so visible at one of these meetings. This
hardly pressages the platform dying out.

But one of these days, I will get around to creating another default
sig. line--preferably one even more offensive to the PC faithful, if
I can find one.

Hugh
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Hugh Haskell
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Let's face it. People use a Mac because they want to, Windows because they
have to..
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