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- From: jstc_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu (j. collins)
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- Subject: Re: Where the mac really wins
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.201701.29185@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 20:17:01 GMT
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- In <BzBFLx.EA1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
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- >In article <1fur2gINNql5@hpscit.sc.hp.com> klui@corp.hp.com (Kenneth K.F. Lui) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec6.192109.6920@infonode.ingr.com> bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
-
- >Oh great. And Mac users don't have to learn how to use it? Have you
- >ever tried teaching someone to use the Mac over the phone? "Yeah.. you
- >have to be in the finder. Click on the top right hand coner - yeah the
- >top right corner - see that picture? Yeah now do you see the Finder?
- >What? You don't see the finder????"
-
- I must agree this is true. It is a bitch to help anyone over the phone
- who does not have a clue.
-
-
- >At the beginning of the semester the Mac labs get more use than the
- >PC labs, perhaps because the Macs look a little cuter and the mud
- >and game players predominate. Later in the semester after people ac-
- >tually start writing papers etc. you'll see the PC labs chock full
- >and the Mac labs almost empty as people realize that the PCs actually
- >let you get the work done without crashing because you forgot to
- >reboot the computer first and someone left LPMUD running in the back-
- >ground and will let you print without having to check the Print Moni-
- >tor for constipation.
-
- I have to disagree with this. Here the mac's are always in constant
- use and most labs do not allow game playing and or muds.
-
- >>Actually, Mac gurus I know of wouldn't touch a PC with a 10'
- >>pole.
-
- >Yeah.. because they can't edit a simple text file so they feel
- >intimidated.
-
- I started off in the PC world, and I still follow developments in it. It
- is kind of funny that I have had *supposed* IBM experts come to me for
- help on their PC's. I prefer the macintosh. I feel a lot more productive
- and on the whole I feel it is a better computer. Now play close attention
- you noticed I said I prefer and I feel. There are MY personal preferences
- and opinions, so DO NOT start a stupid flame war of how I am wrong and
- you are right.
-
- Also DO NOT group everyone together like you did up there. My boss at work,
- who knows a hell of a lot more about the macintosh than I do, started off
- in the IBM world also, and now he also is strongly macintosh, but that
- does not mean he has forgotten all of the stuff he learned before.
-
- >--
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala
- >Internet: NTAIB@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach
- >Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS !
-
- peace,
- -justin m. collins <jstc_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu>
-