Re: Dual Boot Mac

I live in both the Microsoft and Apple world. My opinion is that they are very different systems with different benefits.

With Apple's standardized hardware and automatic driver downloads, you end up with something more stable, but at a higher price. With a pc you have more advanced technology more quickly with cheaper upgrades, but may have hardware conflicts or must be willing to download the latest drivers from individual hardware manufacturers.

On the human computer interaction side I feel Apples have many benefits, but a few serious drawbacks as well. The Apple switching to desktop and switching applications is much superior to the Windows. The Apple automator is handy for batch conversions/tasks and repetitive macro tasks. At least the current version of tiger has horrible use of end/home keys (except for in microsoft applications, home and end do not work - very frustrating in search text boxes and address bars). Apple drop down lists are not tabable and inputable by keyboard - I find it a pain to have to switch to the mouse, especially when entering in web forms. Apple has very cool virtual folders (in mailboxes to automatically sort email to folders, in itunes to automatically group songs to playlists - based on querries). Current apple web browsers can not print a selection off a web page.

I find it all a trade off. I like having a mac at home for its mail and web browsing - especially when I have 10 windows open and am switching between things. I find the end/home button thing a real problem for data entry and working and the occasional mac forced use of the mouse a pain. I don't mind spending time to maintain hardware and am competent at building a pc and thus like the cost savings and incresed performance I can acheive by such.

So, we have both at home and it will probably always stay that way.

Ivan Locke

Christopher Wright wrote:

>On Apr 6, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Geoff Stone DD&D Australia wrote:
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>>My experience with Apple customer service is so bad I will not buy a
>>Mac even to get back at Bill Gates.
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>Mine's been just the opposite. The first problem I ever had was a blown
>power board, and they fixed it without question. That was in 1987 and I
>haven't had a hardware warranty problem since. Other stuff--crapped out
>mice and monitors, a couple of memory upgrades and an add-on hard drive
>went fine. With great hesitation I shopped for my new machine at the
>local Apple store. The guys at the genius bar took an hour or so
>showing me how to install COSMOS/M so it would run in Classic on my
>laptop and on my desktop machines, including some new 3rd party drivers
>I didn't even know existed. I gave them a check that afternoon.In the
>meantime they've been more than helpful getting me some accessories and
>checking out what I thought was a CD problem, all for free. I owe them
>big time, and that's where I shop for stuff. They're always just as
>cheerful when they direct me to another store when they don't have
>something.
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>I've heard tales about bad service, but a lot more about going beyond
>the call.
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Received on Fri Apr 07 09:46:00 2006