At 8:14 AM -0400 4/17/05, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
Unless she HAS to get a PC (and I can't think of a single reason why a
freshman would be that committed to one of the departments that requires
them) she ought to get a Mac. Period.
At this university there are department-specific requirements.
I wrote to the head of the computer sciences center at University of
Maryland to get his opinion as to what machine to buy. Some of you may be
interested in his reply:
Why on earth would you want to subject her to the horrors that
Windows-using students are subjected to here? I spend almost all
At 08:14 AM 4/17/05 -0400, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
As a Mac user, (Macher) I don't have to deal with the virus issue. How do
PC mavens protect themselves from the deluge of attacks on their OS?
I think that is overstated.
For me, aside from getting program and OS updates as they're issued
Lawrence David Eden wrote:
I wrote to the head of the computer sciences center at University of
Maryland to get his opinion as to what machine to buy. Some of you may be
interested in his reply:
Why on earth would you want to subject her to the horrors that
Windows-using students are subjected to
Lawrence David Eden wrote:
I wrote to the head of the computer sciences center at University of
Maryland to get his opinion as to what machine to buy. Some of you may be
interested in his reply:
Why on earth would you want to subject her to the horrors that
Windows-using students are subjected to
Please, people, I beg you. Take this offlist. It is dullest most
pointless religious argument every single time it comes up, and it has
absolutely nothing to do with the topic of this list.
dhbailey wrote:
Lawrence David Eden wrote:
I wrote to the head of the computer sciences center at
agreed here. the repetitiveness of these arguments is stultifying.
On Apr 17, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Robert Patterson wrote:
Please, people, I beg you. Take this offlist. It is dullest most
pointless religious argument every single time it comes up, and it has
absolutely nothing to do with the topic
Please, people, I beg you. Take this offlist. It is dullest most
pointless religious argument every single time it comes up, and it has
absolutely nothing to do with the topic of this list.
Seconded, it's first class flame bait, we've all made our minds up already.
--
Simon Troup
Digital
On 17 Apr 2005, at 10:03 AM, Linda Worsley wrote:
Ask the bookstore if a student can still get a deal on a Mac laptop
(or any other kind).
Regardless of the campus bookstore's policy, the Apple Store online
allows students to obtain their educational discount online:
On 17 Apr 2005 at 8:14, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
I wrote to the head of the computer sciences center at University of
Maryland to get his opinion as to what machine to buy. Some of you
may be interested in his reply:
Why on earth would you want to subject her to the horrors that
On 17 Apr 2005 at 9:20, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Macs have a psychological advantage in that there's little interest in
writing malware for them -- you don't get cred for if you don't have
widespread impact. With Windows on most of the world's desktops, all
hell can break loose, with
On 17 Apr 2005 at 10:25, dhbailey wrote:
Lawrence David Eden wrote:
I wrote to the head of the computer sciences center at University of
Maryland to get his opinion as to what machine to buy. Some of you
may be interested in his reply:
Why on earth would you want to subject her to
David W. Fenton / 05.4.17 / 04:21 PM wrote:
One thing I *will* differ with is Dennis's reference to monitoring
your attachments folder. That clearly shows that he's using Eudora,
which is the only email client I know of that decodes attachments and
stores them in the file system upon arrival
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