Vic, I will say that you are perhaps right in that Mac users "adore" their machines. Most PC users just think of computers as machines - something to get their work done. Doesn't it seem odd to you that only 5-10% of the Micro marketplace can only see Macs as the only machine for them? Every encounter that I have had with Macs in my 25 years of software engineering has not proven their superiority - quite often sadly lacking in software support from the industry as a whole - more or less a niche oriented machine. But just like a limited lens, you will pay more for the same basic functionality.
I will place Macs in the same realm in their arena as Pentax is in the camera arena. Canon and Nikon have pretty much blown Pentax out in the 35mm marketplace - they are trying and producing good products, but struggle nonetheless. Though once strong, through a series of bad choices and decisions, they are no longer the powerhouse they once were. Boy this sounds just like Apple - I remember their glory days before the IBM PC came out. Through a series of bad decisions and choices (litigation against cloners, etc) they are no longer the powerhouse they once were. -- Best regards, Bruce Sunday, January 4, 2004, 9:46:32 PM, you wrote: Pac> Amita wrote Pac> I doubt it. There's really nothing a Mac can do that a Windows machine >> can't do just as well. Maybe years ago that was true, but not anymore. >> >> Amita Pac> Well Amita for the most part you are right. What is really important is not Pac> what the computers can do but how they do it. It is the Mac interface that Pac> makes most of us Mac lovers so strong in our beliefs. Photoshop acts pretty much Pac> the same in windows and on a mac. But go to save a file on windows, put it in Pac> the wrong place or whatever and it seems to disappear. It's hard and probably Pac> fruitless to try to convince window users of the benefits to using a Mac. But Pac> don't all you Window users wonder why 99 per cent of those who use a Mac Pac> absolutely adore them? Doesn't that say something? It's like owning a Pentax limited Pac> lens. A regular Pentax lens takes the same picture, but the love affair Pac> between the photographer and the lens is not the same. The limited lens is so Pac> lovely that it inspires the photographer to use it, to experiment with it, to wring Pac> the last little bit of exquisite beauty out of it. Pac> Without sounding too corny, that's the feeling Mac owners have. And for a few Pac> dollars more you too could enjoy it.... Pac> Vic
