Re: [muglo] What makes a Mac?

Hi Doug,

This afternoon at work (I bring in my Mac Laptop to work) my Windows =20
geek coworker came up and said that every time he saw web pages on my =20=

Mac he saw the benefit of the Mac interface. He said that everything =20
the Mac displayed looked better than the Windows interface.

 =46rom my perspective, I work on Windows and Mac at work, and the Mac =20=

tasks just do what they are supposed to, usually pretty beautifully. =20
The Windows' work can be a real fight; time I can't spare.

My coworker and I agreed that using a computer should be graceful and =20=

give back as part of the experience, something that Mac does and =20
Windows doesn't.

Just my tuppence worth.

Biti, 20 years DOS/Windows and Mac

P.S. Mostly it isn't technical, it's aesthetic. Apple thinks a lot =20
about interface issues.
P.P.S. Windows will never approximate Mac's ease of use.
P.P.S. Could we please get rid of the limit on quoting previous posts?

On 2008-01-30, at 7:42 PM, Doug Bale wrote:
/snip

> . These days, things have got so complicated =97
> Macs becoming more like PCs, PCs getting more Mac-like every days =97
> that when I happened to think about it this morning it occurred to me
> that I no longer know the answer.
/snip
> what's left in a Mac that's unique, apart from
> the system software and bundled apps that come with it?
> I.e., if you completely zeroed out a Mac hard drive (brrr!) could you
> just install Vista on it and live happily ever after as a Microsoft
> zombie.
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