Hey- Macs are edging out PCs in the poll. Could it have something to do with Airstreamers appreciating design???
Maybe we think with a different side of the brain? It's been 7 months since I got my first Mac (Macbook Pro), and its just been delightful. After my entire PC carreer dealing with Microsoft operating systems and various hardware, I finally made the jump. Things are changing out there and while there isn't a lot of stuff out there (like in the Microsoft world), I am seeing some software now coming in either in Mac versions or being packaged with Mac and Win versions in the same box.
I just was looking at a GPS and found a GPS that will converse via Bluetooth to my Mac. Also encouraging is some Mac software called Route Buddy that will interface with the GPS unit itself.
I had to buy a new laptop for an organization I belong to (I'm the treasurer), so I'm now dealing with a new Toshiba PC and Vista business edition. It's obviously different and quite honestly I tried to convince the Board that a Macbook would have done us well (but they had fears). I'll take my Mac over that Vista machine any day.
Jack
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Hey- Macs are edging out PCs in the poll. Could it have something to do with Airstreamers appreciating design???
I am inclined to agree. My blue G4 case looks great in the Excella. The curved case fits right in. This is coming from my Gateway at work, MAC address 00-04-75-C4-C1-07.
Currently use a mac book for all my personal applications. Only wish the mac book was available in the titanium case. Use a windows laptop for work applications and can't believe anyone would be satisfied with such poor performance.
We travel with two MacBook Pros - wouldn't have anything else. And, would never, ever consider a PC (Piece of C___). If you have ever used a Mac, you would never go back to a PC!
Can't wait to see the iPhone in person!! If you can't tell, I am a dyed-in-the-wool Mac person.
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[quote=Pecos Pete]We travel with two MacBook Pros - wouldn't have anything else. And, would never, ever consider a PC (Piece of C___). If you have ever used a Mac, you would never go back to a PC!
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I have used Macs since '84, but when I had to prepare an online class I had to use a PC. I knew the average student uses a PC and I hated them(PCs too), but one must think of the end user. So I have a Dell laptop, that is more comfortable in my lap than my G4.
Everytime I go into the other room (office)and use my Mac I think: It is so cool, so smooth. The interface is so intuitive. Ah well, maybe when my ship comes in I will buy a Mac laptop. And then I go back to the living room to sit with my laptop in reclining comfort.
cheers, bill b.
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Wow, this thread seems to have gotten a new lease on life....not only are there a lot of new posts, but a ton of new votes since the thread reappeared.
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Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq and millions of others are by far the most popular with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form. -NY Times 11/91
There is still a lot more to like about the iPhone than not to like and Apple once again has defined a quantum leap in how we will think of phones. In a year there will probably be knockoff copying competitors. But you are right about Rev 2. Thankfully I can wait since I am heavily married to Verizon after lobbying and getting my whole family on it for unlimited minutes and long distance calling for free.
I agree, the phone on it's own is a heck of a piece of engineering and clearly will turn the industry on it's head once they finally realize what hit them. My thought is even if work were to buy one for me, with the current shortcomings posted by the media folks who got to play with it, clearly I am a 2nd gen or beyond customer. I will have one at one point, but can't justify it right now. It won't play nice yet with groupware other than iCal, Entourage, etc. Lots of folks with major Exchange deployments and other email systems are SOL for now in terms of any groupware syncing. A number of reports I read told the business customers to wait and from what I've read, running an Enterprise level Mac shop, it pains me to agree if the data is true. I only hope the reports I read had some errors in it.
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Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq and millions of others are by far the most popular with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form. -NY Times 11/91
I think i am going to wait for REV 2 also. I currently have a smart phone with AT&T. The monthly rate for me will actually be less than what I pay now with a calling plan and unlimited data - have to have it on the road. From what I know, the iPhone pretty much blows away anything out there now. I am sure Mac will work out the bugs like they do with all of their products.
__________________ Pecos Pete
Cow Creek, NM
'07 34' Classic
I use a PC. Mac hasn't figured out how to operate Autocad yet. Although, now that they can operate Windows, I suppose it is no longer an issue.
This pretty much sums up my disdain for the PC, Microsoft OS and AutoDesk especially because they have little creativity to even try to adapt to the Macintosh. AutoCAD represents the last bastion of arrested development that Apple has not concurred. If it hadn't been for Steve Jobs bringing WYSIWYG to the masses we would probably still staring at amber ASCII text on black screens as we still draw with color representing lines on black screens with AutoCAD. At this juncture I expect someone here to pipe in about yeah but really it was Xerox at Palo Alto. Yeah, but they sat on their butts with it.
If you remember your history it took Microsoft kicking and screaming at least 8 years to get a Windows operating system out that could emulate the Mac OS. That only highlights the significance of Apple and Mac in 1984 considering Microsoft was an early partner with Word on the Mac that you could not get on the PC for several years.
Apple dabbled and demonstrated very early on you could do a WYSIWYG with MacDraw and a CAD program in ClarisCAD and Adobe demonstrated Illustrator from the beginning how to draw on a computer and see what you intuitively have. No one yet has combined the richness of the two to make art and scaled drafting (CAD) totally intuitive. Engineered Software's Mac PowerCAD is probably the closest but is only 2D. VectorWorks is close but ignorance of them and the sheer dominance of AutoCAD has continued the arrested development sprung out of the old antiquated DOS operating system.
I often wonder if the Mac hadn't happened if Microsoft would have remained as arrested in development as AutoCAD and we would still communicating here in ASCII text and the Internet as we know it would still be waiting to develop. It seems Apple continually keeps pushing the envelope and dragging the others in and giving others the platform with which to spring new ideas. Apple has always been the leader in hardware design. The iPod and iTunes are rapidly changing music and video buying and delivery. Just as we got used to accepting our clunkily operating cell phones along comes the iPhone that will probably completely change the paradigm again (much for the better).
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