Two questions...and I don't have a zune, I have an ipod. But I'm wondering what is missing on the zune for you?
Why did it take an hour on the HP? It sounds more like it is just unfamiliar territory? It takes me less then an hour for me to reinstall my entire os and drivers on my pc then it did for an ipod reformat. What went wrong with that ipod backup on the HP? Mike On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:12 PM, b_s-wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > I wouldn't buy a Zune. It doesn't have the features I want. That doesn't > matter. I'm not the buyer. You are. The main difference is that some > technology works well with multiple systems, but others don't work with what > I have/want. I work alone. I don't have time to fix things, but I know how. > If what I have works well, then I'll get more of the same. If another > technology takes much longer to do the same task, I avoid it. We may be > doing different things, but it's a worthy goal to seek the technology that's > the most elegant for the best price--that includes gamers, especially gamers > on a budget. Used to be called "appropriate technology." > > I don't think you take into consideration that many Mac users are also PC > users. We are in the unique position to be familiar with the good and bad of > both. We're not speaking from a position of ignorance, but often out of > frustration with technology that doesn't work well--and there's a lot. We > like Macs because they do what we need better than the Windows PCs. That > doesn't mean you're an idiot for not getting a Mac if Windows works for you. > However, if you're comfortably familiar only with Windows and not Macs, the > table turns and it's the Windows users that are biased, not the Mac users. > Works both ways. > > Case in point: Took about 15 minutes to back up my iPod, reformat it and > restore the files, using my MacBook. Took well over an hour to do exactly > the same task on my husband's HP notebook; some videos didn't transfer and I > had to use the MacBook to restore the original videos from my library to his > iPod. > > Case 2: My son majored in physics. He used Mathematica after dumping > Matlab. Although he owns an iLamp, versions of Mathematica run on any > computer he needs to use. Operating system for either program is irrelevant > since both work well on multiple systems. > > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
