No doubt there are advantages to Macs. They manage to produce a product
that is absolutely mindless to use out of the box (the second reason
after cost that schools like them) and serve as a wonderful starter
computer for youngsters and those less than confident about how all
those "thingies" work. However, I know when it comes time for my son to
learn how to actually use a computer, rather than just toy around with
one, Mac OS will definitely be set aside and I'll opt for Linux...once
he figures that out, I'll let him decide how to waste his money on
proprietary software.
David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
On Mon, January 11, 2010 09:20, Lea Murphy wrote:
If I had to do the work I do on a pc instead of a mac I'd find a different
job that didn't involve computers.
They really ARE that much better.
That's certainly not what I see around me. My Mac-owning friends have far
more trouble than my PC-owning friends (per computer), AND they spent a
lot more money for their hardware. There's a lot less software available
to them. AND my long-time MAC-owning friends have been subjected to
multiple flag-day conversions when they had to re-buy all their software,
to boot (Motorola to Power-PC to Intel, various incompatible levels of the
OS). And are mostly complaining about the performance (because they can't
upgrade their systems much, and can't afford to replace them too often).
I used a MAC far before I ever used Windows, and found it terribly hard to
use, too. I was trying to prepare some simple overhead projector slides
for a presentation, and Mac Paint just made it hideous. (This was, um,
quite a while ago. Before Windows was out at all.)
