[THIN] Re: Windows 7 Ain't gonna be much different than Vista

Oh Greg.....  Now you are breaking my bank.. A quad core mac and a mac air?
How much is that???   I¹m a simple man and can¹t afford that... ;)

But sure would love it..




On 5/30/08 5:49 PM, "Greg Reese" <gareese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> that's what the macbook air is for.  controlling the big Mac Pro remotely.
> Apple's version or remote desktop is really good.
> 
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Douglas A. Brown <dbrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Yes, I would love a Quad but that is a desktop.  All my Macs are laptops...
>> oh well.    I want to see if I can get a solid state put in my 14" Macbook
>> and then I'm upgrading from 2GB RAM to 4Gb.  If I can do that I think I will
>> solve the slowness.  It is basically a drive issues for me.. the thing just
>> spins and spins and another this I don't like about the Mac is that there is
>> no darn drive light.  give me a drive light so I know my drive is pegged..
>> rrrrr....   
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>> but, the hardware is just insane cool...  I love it!!!
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>> Douglas A. Brown
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>> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>> Of Greg Reese
>> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 5:39 PM
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>> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [THIN] Re: Windows 7 Ain't gonna be much different than Vista
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>> I have a Mac Pro quad.  No slowness there.  But that's where I think google
>> apps becomes powerfule.  Mac, PC, Unix, doesn't matter.  It's blazing fasat
>> with firefox 3 too.  Although I really like iWork.  I loaded it out of
>> curiosity and now my wife won't let me remove it.  She loves Numbers.
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>> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Douglas A. Brown <dbrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Yah, I agree with you Joe.   I actually love Vista as I have a REALLY FAST PC
>> so it can handle vista but it is far from what I would like.   So, I have
>> switched to the Mac in some ways.  I have two Mac.  A 17" laptop and a 14"
>> laptop.  I love them BUT, without VMware Fusion I find it to be useless for
>> business.  In fact, I don't use it at all for work but only use it as an
>> iTunes box, for podcasts, for videos,  movies, and all that stuff...   Office
>> 2008 is much better but I just hate having only one mouse button and I know I
>> can plug a mouse in but not while I'm on my couch or in bed (I love to work
>> in bed, is that too much info for you guys???  )...    So, Thanks for VMware
>> and Parallels my Mac is useful but I really need a solid state drive as I
>> HATE the slowness of the VMs... I sit and wait and wait and wait and now
>> matter how much you hate Vista I don't wait with Vista.. Only XP running in a
>> VM on my Mac... 
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>> So, I pray Microsoft gets 7 right.  I think they know how we all feel and
>> today it is just way tooooooooo early to tell what 7 will be like...    But,
>> I jus don't think the Mac is a solution..
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>> Although, I know Steve G is a big Mac guy so I would love to hear his views
>> on it and maybe he can explain how I can use my Mac for more than just fun..
>> ;)
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>> DB
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>> Douglas A. Brown
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>> President and Chief Technology Officer
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>> Microsoft MVP, Windows Server
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>> Citrix Technology Professional
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>> DABCC, Inc.
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>> Phone:    (954) 778-9558
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>> Fax:        (941) 827-9073
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>> E-mail:      dbrown@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:dbrown@xxxxxxxxx>
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>> Web:       http://www.dabcc.com <http://www.dabcc.com/>
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>> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>> Of Joe Shonk
>> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 5:02 PM
>> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [THIN] Re: Windows 7 Ain't gonna be much different than Vista
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>> I guess it's time to switch to a Mac.
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>> Joe
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>> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Jim Kenzig <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> As I said a few weeks ago on the Windows 2000 list .. start learning Vista
>> now...
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>> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/operating_systems/eight_things_about_w
>> indows_7.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535

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