If I ever have to buy my own computer, it will be a Mac -- but that will be more of a vote against WINDOWS_WHICH_I_LOATHE, than anything else.
Joanna
John Kozak wrote:
>Doug Henwood writes:
> [...]
> > >But having to deal with trojans, viruses and crashes is just one of
> > >life's simple pleasures?
> >
> > Don't have any, so far.
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>Fate, tempted, replies with: http://macintouch.com/opener.html
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> > OS X almost never crashes, and if an individual program freezes or
> > quits, everything else is undisturbed. And it's so pretty.
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>OSX isn't so bad, granted, though at the one place I've seen it used
>in earnest, a majority of techies and (surprisingly) users preferred
>the linux boxes: once you get beyond the prettiness, the quirkiness of
>the networking and so-so bang-for-buck argue against it a fair bit.
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> >If I want to, I can get down to the UNIX level, but why would I want
> >to type command lines full of pipes and switches and parms and all
> >that crap I'm happy to have left way behind?
>
>Personally, I find it far more effective. De gustibus, and all that,
>but I don't think any of the current user-facing software is much cop;
>probably OSX is the best of a sorry bunch.
>
>John
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