As a mac & wintel user, each has their place, each has their own
problems.
BUT - please explain just why my windows programs don't run on my MAC so
I can share that information w/ my MAC, since it doesn't seam to
understand its not supposed to work!
I'll admit the MAC can't run the latest & greatest gaming wintel
software, heck I just bought a racing game, that none of my three Wintel
computers can run without upgrades. For those w/ laptops or or those
cute little cubes, software is available that will let them run any Win
NT or Win'98 compatible software w/ some limitations. For those of us
with PCI & SCSI ports there are hardware upgrades for which we can
actually put a PC inside our MAC.
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Craig Naylor
Naylor & Naylor
ph/fax 858-679-3754
E-mail - Magazine@pacbell.net
P.S. - Sounds like you have an apology to may to an ex - because she was
actually correct, she just might not have known why.
they preach to their own choir, though. Apple made their Big Mistake
back
in the early 80s. The *only* way they can recapture a significant
amount
of the PC market is to roll out a reasonably fast machine for under
$1500
that can run programs designed for Windows - specifically, games. And
it
must run it at least as fast as a comparably priced PC box. That's the
only thing that will get home users buying macs in large numbers again.
Until then, the Mac will be a computer for:
1. People heavily into graphic design, video editing, etc.
2. People who have very casual computer use requirements and do not
play
games
3. People who want it as a novelty, ie, people who want to port code to
it because they 'can', or people (like me) who think it's cool to see a
UNIX shell on a mac (OS X), or people who want to run Linux on it (good
way to revive an old PPC601/PPC603/PPC604 box actually).
4. People who don't know better and think that it *can* run Windows and
want it because the case/monitor styling looks cool (my ex-wife was
seriously hot for one before I told her that she couldn't run Windows on
it. I had to pull up a web browser and *prove* this to her).
I believe the Mac market penetration is about 10%. It will continue to
be
around that, unless Apple can do what I describe above with the mac.
IMNSHO of course.
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@foo3.com>
Cisco Certified Network Associate, Sun Solaris Certified Systems
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