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From: George Kerby on 13 Feb 2010 10:34



On 2/12/10 9:13 PM, in article hl55dd$aqr$1(a)news.acm.uiuc.edu, "Doug
McDonald" <mcdonald(a)scs.jllinois.edu> wrote:

> John McWilliams wrote:
>
>>
>> If you're not buying Macs, you've missed the boat: They do work.
>>
> To the same extent that PCs work.
>
> The problem with Macs is that they are so severely limited in the
> software they run. They don't run several programs I absolutely must
> have (even on Intel CPS and under an emulator).
>
And that would be?

> Several of my colleagues have Macs for a desktop web brower, Word and
> Powerpoint machine ... and that's ALL they use them for ... their real
> work is done either on a PC or under Linux.
>
> Doug Mcdonald

You obviously don't have a need for *professional* photography, videography
or cinema production, otherwise you would not make such a naive statement.

From: Mr. Strat on 15 Feb 2010 17:50
In article
<f6f65dd1-eb5c-4710-895c-7ec220b9f178(a)k19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
RichA <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Like it or not, Windows runs the modern World. And UNIX/Linux.
> NOT Apple.

Britney Spears has sold a lot of records - that doesn't mean she's a
good singer.
From: Mr. Strat on 19 Feb 2010 09:46
In article
<f6f65dd1-eb5c-4710-895c-7ec220b9f178(a)k19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
RichA <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Like it or not, Windows runs the modern World. And UNIX/Linux.
> NOT Apple.

Britney Spears has sold a lot of records. That doesn't mean she can
sing.
From: Laurence Payne on 19 Feb 2010 10:15
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:46:30 -0800, "Mr. Strat"
<rag(a)nospam.techline.com> wrote:

>> Like it or not, Windows runs the modern World. And UNIX/Linux.
>> NOT Apple.
>
>Britney Spears has sold a lot of records. That doesn't mean she can
>sing.

But she has a GREAT image. Bit like a Mac :-)
From: Savageduck on 19 Feb 2010 11:40
On 2010-02-19 07:15:48 -0800, Laurence Payne <lp(a)laurencepayne.co.uk> said:

> On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:46:30 -0800, "Mr. Strat"
> <rag(a)nospam.techline.com> wrote:
>
>>> Like it or not, Windows runs the modern World. And UNIX/Linux.
>>> NOT Apple.
>>
>> Britney Spears has sold a lot of records. That doesn't mean she can
>> sing.
>
> But she has a GREAT image. Bit like a Mac :-)

....but multi tasking is somewhat problematic with her, and she isn't
able to run on multiple OS's.

--
Regards,

Savageduck

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