On 03/27/2011 10:43 AM, PaliGap wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer"<rick@...> wrote: >> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] >> On Behalf Of Sal Sunshine >> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 12:16 PM >> To: Yahoo Group >> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Mac attack >> >> OK, everyone~~I want some opinions here. >> (I know, I know~~FFL is *not* the place for >> strong opinions, or really, opinions of almost >> any kind~~people here are simply >> too self-effacing for that. I get it. But >> bear with me anyway. :)) >> >> I will probably need a new computer >> in a few months (nothing's wrong with the >> one I have now~~it's great~~ I'm just running >> out of space) and am wondering what Apple >> has got up its sleeve for the fall. Anybody >> talked to the big S lately? :) I'm thinking >> that they probably aren't going to go much >> bigger~~27" for a desktop and 17" for >> a laptop would seem to be plenty big >> enough for most people~~but am wondering >> if it's worth waiting around to see what >> they *are* going to do, if anything, to the >> iMacs/MB Pros. In looking at the MacMall home page, >> supposedly the "new" MacBook Pros are out, >> but they look and sound pretty much exactly >> like most of the others. If there is anything >> new or different it isn't really obvious. >> So anyway, Rick...anyone else...any thoughts? >> >> I've been using a PC for years now and haven't really been keeping up with >> Mac stuff. >> > Isn't a Mac a "PC"? ;-)
It's a "designer PC." Steve Jobs is the Calvin Klein of computing. People pay a lot of bucks to have that Apple logo on their machine. > Let's not allow Microsoft to take over as in '"hoover" = > "Hoover"'! I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a Mac around here because I have an old Blueberry the owner didn't want back. When I went to check on upgrading it to run OS X it wasn't going to work and would have been better to buy a Mac Mini. I have several Windows machines and this machine running Linux. Sal would not be a Linux person so would need the hand holding that Apple does. That hand holding used to irritate so many technical people that were working on Macs. I also get irritated at the "in your face" updates that Windows shoves at you when the machine boots. I shove those out of the way to do some other day. On Linux it's a little icon up in the right corner that you can click for updates and I often does those before I shut down the machine for the evening. Microsoft lives in fear of dummies never doing the updates so they shove it in your face. But I don't use the Windows machines for email or browsing.
