Frank wrote,
If cheap is your main arbiter I am surprised you are on the Rollei
list ;-)
Nice point Frank although completely irrelevant! I'm on the Rollei
list
because I love Rollei cameras. My being on the Rollei list is
because I am a
fine art photographer! This in my opinion has nothing to do with
Mac vs P.C,
either of which I am very interested in, although I dislike Mac more;
particularly since the launch of the idiotic IPOD.
Just Shuffling.
Marvin.
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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Wanted to Buy Macintosh SE/30
not my experience.
In the 80s when the pc appeared it was pitifully slow and had the
first really bad commercial operating system. I did not work
properly. Good marketing persuaded naive new to computers customers
that that was normal. Compared to the (cheaper) computer I was using
at the time it was about 50x slower and crashed all the time.
The mac was much more expensive initially, but massively more
powerful - necessary for the very much more powerful operating system
- which made it easy for non techies to use.
The relative merits and prices have ebbed and flowed in the meantime
and I have continued to (have to) use both. PCs have normally been
cheaper and worse made, for gaming they are a no brainer as the video
is faster. From a software point of view the Apple OS has always been
superior to any of the concurrent Microsoft OSs, usually very
considerably. From a hardware point of view Apple, to an extent, shot
themselves in the foot by not letting others make compatible
hardware. It will always be a matter of opinion but most of the time
the Apple hardware has been better styled and made but pcs from super
cheap sources were great for students (and cheapskates).
My current laptops are Hewlett a Packard PC and oldish G4 Mac 17".
They cost about the same, the HP is potentially a touch faster but
the software rarely works smoothly, particularly on the company
network - the IT department don't know why (XP Pro) and have not been
able to fix it...... The Mac is much better made, the OS (10.4.7) is
very much superior.
If cheap is your main arbiter I am surprised you are on the Rollei
list ;-)
Frank
On 17 Sep, 2006, at 16:26, Marvin Wallace wrote:
I too was a Macintosh user, and then I bought a P.C and found that
there is
little difference between the two, the exception being Macs are
stupidly
overpriced. P.C's are cheaper faster and have a whole lot more
accessories
at a third of the price.
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