dongrant wrote:
gessman wrote:
vallabh1 wrote:
Why talk down on people who use MACs. First you say not to badmouth people with PC problems then you go around and bad mouth MAC users.
Sorry to see people have PC issues but I spend more time repairing PCs than One MAC in 12years of IT issues. People have their own opinions and are entitle to them but don't see what does break. I have burnt four PCs since 1992 and have a MAC since 2005. Did replace the HD and graphics card but as they say how you use the is how they work, mine are treated with kid gloves and work fine no bad sites are visited and I have a robust workout on my MAC when it comes to photos since I shoot over 25k over a weekend. Post production gives the computer a good workout since uploading to lab and other sites take a lot of processing power.
My take.
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au contraire, dear person. My comments were not aimed at people. They were aimed at the idea that buying a Mac was an alternative to having the problems inherent in the ownership of ANY computer. It is the Mac people who are smugly disillusioned and lulled to sleep with the idea that they are safe and secure by their ill-informed choice to own one. NOW, I have attacked Mac owners and therefore will be guilty as charged.
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Well Gessman, if they are going to hang for attacking disillusioned Mac owners they are going to burn me alive. And it will probability smell bad. Because I will question anyone that tries to convince anybody to buy a Mac, Windows PC, Linux system, Nikon, Canon... whatever base on their personal preference. We should get what fits our needs, budget, other personal requirements, of which only the user him/her self can possibility be aware of. As I used to tell people when they would ask what kind of kayak that they should get (I used to kayak...a lot), you don't let someone else pick your underwear don't let them pick your ... . Sorry about the crudeness, but some people just don't get it. There is no way any for us can possibility know what best fits someone else's needs. We can make reasonable recommendations, as most do by saying "I like my ..." but to say "you need a ...", "the ... is the only choice" etc is totally absurd :-).
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Thank you.
The point of solutions is that it is a PLURAL. There is and I sure hope always WILL be options: we CHOOSE our system, whether it's a camera or a computer. We are free to choose.
We are entitled to our opinions and everyone is entitled to disagree. I appreciate suggestions, but I resent being pushed. Sure I get upset when there are problems with my computer, don't you?
I'm kind of proud that I doped out the problem and solved it. Okay, I caused it in the first place (my bad) ... but that can happen on any system: UNIX, LINUX, Windows, Mac. I've worked on every system you can think of, a bunch of which no longer exist and you can blow it on any and any of them can fail.
I worked for a guy who had his Ph.D. from MIT. He was the best boss ever. The company ran PCs as work stations, but all the servers were UNIX boxes. The UNIX boxes were absolutely problem free. They never needed so much as a reboot. But they totally lack user-friendly stuff you get with PC and Mac. If you decided to delete something, like the contents of your hard drive, it would just go right ahead and delete it ... no "Are you sure you want to do that?" He pointed out that for all of its advantages, a UNIX system was NOT for end users. Ditto LINUX. Most of us need a few prompts to keep us from doing something stupid.
My first computer (in this country) was a Mac. It was tiny and primitive, but Windows was not viable at that point (in my opinion) and the place I worked ran DEC servers which were compatible with a Mac OS.
The first thing I did when setting up my brand new computer was accidentally delete the operating system.That's how I first learned how to install an operating system.
Screwing up has nothing to do with which system you are running. Human error happens.
There's is nothing inherent in a Mac that would have prevented me from updating a driver and destabilizing the system. If I did the same thing on a Mac, I would have had the same result.
By the way, the one thing I did NOT do was slam Macs or Mac users. It's the smugness that aggravates me.