I am now working (temporarily) as Features Editor of a local paper. They use mostly Mac G4s. IMO, the G4s suck like a rift in spacetime.
I use a Sony Mavica for photography which burns to a mini-cd. Works fantastic whether you use Windoze or Linux. Apparently won't work on a Mac because OSX can't read the CD. Most folks there keep a cd in their drive bay so they have an icon which they can click and (hopefully) eject their CDs, because once the CD is out and the icon leaves the desktop it may or may not open the drive bay and may or may not read the next CD. Word on the Mac has the quaint habit of deleting files on the server rather than saving when you attempt to save changes to an existing document. There is no fix for this shite. I could go on. So, all the time I was using PCs I was hearing about Macs and thinking "damn, they must be good if they cost so freakin' much but I bet I could build something as good for less." I was wrong. I could build something a helluva lot better for far less. Lee John W. Reames III wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Werner Fehlauer wrote: > >> Jim - after more than 30 years of using PCs (starting with an 8080 in kit >> form), I suppose I'm too old to switch to one of those Apple/Mac/whatever >> boxes. Even worked up a box with a 6502 processor (as used in the early >> Apples) but on an S-100 bus, with a 300 baud modem using tape on the Kansas >> City standard. In those days memory was around $100 a K! >> Ditched that and went to a Z80 and dual 8" floppy drives. Finally sprung for >> a complete PC when the company offered them on an employee plan. Have >> probably gone through almost a dozen "bigger and better" ones over the >> years. >> Always heard that they were the greatest for publication and artwork, but >> also was turned off by the higher pricing and lack of being able to kloodge >> up a system using various and sundry after market accessories. >> >> Werner > > You can pick up used ones for cheap. > > I got a G4/dual 533 with half a gig ram for $100. Got an original Apple > studio LCD (17") for $180 (ebay), a dvd-dl burner for $30 (other world > computing), a 120GB HDD for $40 (computergeeks.com), and replaced the > apple 1 button with my wife's 3 button original MS notebook optical > mouse. Its pretty decent speed wise, and just works with everything I > throw at it. > > The BIGGEST PIT(F)A is Quicken-- PC and MAC are different design teams, > different savefiles. You have to EXPORT the PC version, and you lose all > your reapeat/memorized transactions when you import it. Ditto going from > MAC-> PC. everything else is fine. iPhoto beats the crap out of other > photo organizers (hands down). You can even get a ShutterFly plugin for > it! (Export -> shutterfly) > > -j. > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > Email is protected by DesertGate Spam Filter http://www.desertgate.com
