[THIN] Re: Windows 7 Ain't gonna be much different than Vista
- From: "Greg Reese" <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 16:38:56 -0500
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.
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Douglas A. Brown <dbrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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> *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_windows_7.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
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> --
> Jim Kenzig
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Presentation and Hosted Desktop
> Virtualization
> Citrix Technology Professional
> Blog: http://www.techblink.com
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