----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:05 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] A Mac in my future
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> On Jan 15, 2008, at 7:24 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote:
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>> b) Will I notice any difference in download time for the internet
>> or in
>> switching between programs?
>
> You shouldn't.
>
>> Doesn't the first depend on the ISP rather than
>> the machine or its operating system, and the second on the amount
>> of RAM?
>
> Yup to both.
>
>> d) I believe the Mac has something called Boot Camp which allows
>> you to also
>> work in Windows - but at additional cost and also more slowly, I've
>> heard.
>
> BootCamp comes with the latest version of OS X, and Windows runs as
> native code on the Intel, so there should be no sacrifice of speed.
>
>> Also, I've burnt most of our CD collection onto WMA files which
>> won't play
>> on a Mac - isn't that so?
>
> You can play WMAs with the Mac version of Windows Media Player and
> with a plug-in for QuickTime. And there's a little shareware program
> called EasyWMA that converts WMA to MP3 very quickly. THere are a
> couple of other excellent sound conversion programs - Max and
> SoundConverter - that can convert practically any format to
> practically any other format.
>
> Doug
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