> ...Macs are just SO easy to use!! > .... Per Öfverbeck: Hehe, I´d say they WERE so easy to use, back in the OS 9 days.... The current OS X, while a vast improvement in performance, is a bit overloaded with features, and so has become about equally complicated as Windoze to use and maintain (especially with Epson peripherals). The BIG (and most important) difference remains: Macs still are very reliable and safe. gosh I was just discussing bloat and putting together some factoids about it for a completely different purpose but since you raised the topic, maybe sharing would be good bloatware riddled Vs clean - a comedy challenge <http://hubpages.com/hub/_86_Mac_Plus_Vs_07_AMD_DualCore_You_Wont_Believe_W h o_Wins> or http://tinyurl.com/284ey4 if the above link wraps "Conclusion : Check out the results! For the functions that people use most often, the 1986 vintage Mac Plus beats the 2007 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+: 9 tests to 8! " reason? Operating System bloat. I was also compiling a list of bloatware, the nominations were: Microsoft's Word Viewer (nearly 25 MB), Adobe's PDF Reader 8.1 (22.3 MB) and the winner to date: iTunes for Windows (51 MB). horrific given VLC media player is around a meg, as is Foxit PDF reader but as a friend pointed out and I quote here: "Talking of bloatware, you should have a look at various cross-platform apps, and the difference in installer size between Win, Linux and Mac. Nearly every time, the Mac download is huge compared to the Windows. eg: Flash 9 - PC 1.1MB, Linux 2.5MB, Mac(PowerPC) 1.8MB, Mac(Intel) 4.2MB Firefox 2 - PC 5.7MB, Linux 9.2MB, Mac 17.1MB Google Earth - PC 14.3MB, Linux 20.6MB, Mac 29.6MB " an interesting article.. and more interestingly the comments http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/08/21/award-winning-software-usually-isnt/ and the safety issue often comes down to the method of connecting to the net, and Opera still manages to keep windoze users safer than any other browser (virus free for 4 years now! :) AND it's faster that any other browser, sometimes by a LONG shot.. http://celtickane.com/projects/jsspeed.php http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html http://www.garyshood.com/browser/ and fianlly, it's small :) k
