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Subject: Re: [OM] Re: an Albert intervention
From: Albert <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 23:42:43 +0800
Microsoft??

I use FreeBSD thank you...

;-)

Albert

Jan Steinman wrote:


Man, you got the wrong computer!

The Mac G5 is a 64 bit computer that transparently supports 32 bit apps. It is available 
TODAY -- not simply "chips are out," waiting for someone to design boxes around 
them. And from the independent tests I've seen, they pretty much smoke a dual 3 GHz 
Pentium.

What are 16 bit apps? Apple users have never had to deal with such things -- 
all Mac programs were always 32 bit.

Yea, I know. The next thing I'm gonna hear is how much more expensive Macs are. What is 
your peace of mind worth? Unlike Microsoft, who has their market by the short-hairs, 
Apple takes pretty good care of its users. I've never worried about getting "screwed 
over" by Apple, as you seem to do about Microsoft. Apple has always had 
well-engineered migration paths when they made big changes.

Also, the last time I got a virus on a Mac was 1989! Although I have to put up 
with RECEIVING them from my Windows friends who thoughtfully put me in their 
Outlook address book, I don't have to worry about CATCHING the damn things. I 
came back from Utah to find over 600 copies of the latest virus in my Trash. 
(MacOS X Mail knows how to put anything with a Windows executable attachment in 
the Trash. :-)

So, not to start a computer war or anything here, but why keep bitching about 
Windows when you can actually DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

  <http://www.apple.com/switch>

(Unless, of course, you simply like to bitch, in which case, Windows is a fine 
choice! :-)

If you don't want to replace your hardware (which will be worthless in 18 
months anyway, unlike Macs, which IDC says have a useful lifetime of nearly 
twice as long), why don't you try Linux?

I can never understand why people who buck the Nikon/Canon hegemony for an 
over-priced, exquisitely designed, 30-year-old camera system don't embrace the 
Mac.




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