Posted by Michael Pardee on June 23, 2006, 11:47 pm
> Ditto, ditto, ditto, including the Machead bit!
Oh no! Now my friends might not only find out that I am hanging out with
liberals, but that I am hanging out with Macheads! My reputation is shot.
Oh well. You guys are worth it.
Mike
Posted by Michelle Steiner on June 24, 2006, 2:43 am
> Oh no! Now my friends might not only find out that I am hanging out
> with liberals, but that I am hanging out with Macheads! My reputation
> is shot.
So you might as well buy a Mac and vote Green. You won't even have to
give up your Windows software; the new Macs can run them very well.
--
Stop Mad Cowboy Disease: Impeach the son of a Bush.
Posted by kari on June 24, 2006, 4:14 am
Yeah, but if you are going to run Windows, why bother with a Mac?
Kari
>> Oh no! Now my friends might not only find out that I am hanging out
>> with liberals, but that I am hanging out with Macheads! My reputation
>> is shot.
> So you might as well buy a Mac and vote Green. You won't even have to
> give up your Windows software; the new Macs can run them very well.
> --
> Stop Mad Cowboy Disease: Impeach the son of a Bush.
Posted by Davoud on June 24, 2006, 4:57 am
kari wrote:
> Yeah, but if you are going to run Windows, why bother with a Mac?
As a user of Windows XP Pro SP2 and Mac OS X I think (I hope!) I can
answer that in a non-partisan, non-flame-inciting way.
There is some good software available for Windows that is not available
for the Mac. If you're mainly a Windows guy you could compile a more
complete list than I can. Autocad is an important app that comes to
mind, and I don't mean to suggest that's the only one.
There is some good software available for the Mac that is not available
for Windows. If you're mainly a Windows guy I can compile a more
complete list than you can. Aperture, Final Cut Studio; Keynote, Shake,
Soundtrack, /Microsoft/ /Entourage/ , (yes, Virginia, MS makes an
e-mail client for the Mac OS that is better than anything it makes for
Windows,) and I don't mean to suggest those are the only ones.
I think the point is that if you want to run all those great Windows
apps /and/ all of the great Mac apps /and/ the zillion tons of
Linux/Unix apps, and run them all natively, and run them all on one
hardware platform, and run a whole bunch of them simultaneously, a
consensus is arising (among pro-level Windows users in particular) that
Macintosh hardware is the best solution yet devised.
I did my best to keep it non-partisan, without harping on the fact that
Mac OS X has /never/ been penetrated in spite of millions of
sophisticated attempts.
Davoud
Posted by kari on June 25, 2006, 2:22 am
I guess that I haven't really found a need for apps that I can't get on
Windows or Linux. I had no intention of flaming anyone and I hope no one
took it that way.
Kari
> kari wrote:
>> Yeah, but if you are going to run Windows, why bother with a Mac?
> As a user of Windows XP Pro SP2 and Mac OS X I think (I hope!) I can
> answer that in a non-partisan, non-flame-inciting way.
> There is some good software available for Windows that is not available
> for the Mac. If you're mainly a Windows guy you could compile a more
> complete list than I can. Autocad is an important app that comes to
> mind, and I don't mean to suggest that's the only one.
> There is some good software available for the Mac that is not available
> for Windows. If you're mainly a Windows guy I can compile a more
> complete list than you can. Aperture, Final Cut Studio; Keynote, Shake,
> Soundtrack, /Microsoft/ /Entourage/ , (yes, Virginia, MS makes an
> e-mail client for the Mac OS that is better than anything it makes for
> Windows,) and I don't mean to suggest those are the only ones.
> I think the point is that if you want to run all those great Windows
> apps /and/ all of the great Mac apps /and/ the zillion tons of
> Linux/Unix apps, and run them all natively, and run them all on one
> hardware platform, and run a whole bunch of them simultaneously, a
> consensus is arising (among pro-level Windows users in particular) that
> Macintosh hardware is the best solution yet devised.
> I did my best to keep it non-partisan, without harping on the fact that
> Mac OS X has /never/ been penetrated in spite of millions of
> sophisticated attempts.
> Davoud