The computer that's number one in consumer satisfaction
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In September I took my last Mac hardware to the recyclers. There was nothing wrong with the faithful old workhorse - it only wasn't useful to anything any more. Everything has moved into the Internet, and there is no working browser for pre-OSX computers. Also, no USB.
The main reason of not buying a new Mac was the appalling lack of forward and backward compatibility. None of my old software would have run in a new mac. I was mostly quite happy with the functionality of the old versions of things I was using. For the most important of them I had over the years acquired PC versions too, as I had got a PC to be compatible with my work environment.
For a new Mac I would have had to buy new versions of all the software I was accustomed to using. My PC still runs happily some old software that originates from two or three generations of Windows back (like my Freehand, dated 1995)
My daughter grew up with Macs, and she now uses an Imac. We were both fans of Appleworks, but to get her files from her old computer to Iwork in OS X, I had to locate and buy a discontinued OSX version of Appleworks too, and if I hadn't found that, her old work might have been lost.
Anssi
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The Linux community have spoofed the mac ads, very funny
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That's sad. I hate having to throw something away. Didn't you have a collector friend?
There is a certain irony in the fact that until 2005 Apple was using a processor called "PowerPC" created by Motorola and the father of the PC, IBM. And even more irony in Apple switching (their favorite verb) to Intel in 2006 and finally supporting Windows. I guess these were necessary steps to ensure the survival of the Mac. Snow Leopard's lack of support for the old PowerPC processors is the last step in the full transition to standard PC hardware, making all Macs bought before 2006 sort of obsolete.
This was actually the second time (In my limited memory) Mac hardware/software broke away with the past, the first time being when Apple switched to a UNIX-based OS (Now called OSX) at the turn of the century, also causing upgrade problems. In contrast, PC generational transitions have been generally smooth, with most hardware/software still working in each iteration, not "we-had-to-move-all-of-our-stuff" as is portrayed in the new ad campaign.
The good news is that the technology IBM developed for the PowerPC processor is still used in game consoles and other devices. So, in a way, you can say my PlayStation 3 is a distant relative of the old Macs.
After having said all this, Anssi, I guess you didn't trash that old Mac. You "upgraded" it. This parody was released around the time of Apple's switch to Intel CPUs.
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@ecuadorian said:
Mystery solved.
Well, no. Not in my opinion. This 'mystery' (whatever mystery that was in the first place) isn't solved- because using Google to collate information like that is highly unscientific, and fails to consider many other aspects of why you may be getting figures like that.
For example, In 2003 I signed up with Virgin Media for the internet. They gave me a USB modem called a Thompson 330, which although ran fairly okay on my PC, gave my Mac constant kernel panics, freezing Mac OS X. If I unplugged it, the Mac was wonderfully stable all the (other) time. The 330 was one of those "free with your breakfast cereal" type modems- with software that ran independently from your network settings within the preferences window. Virgin would also refuse to give support, unless you had these crappy things plugged in to your PC.
The figures you get from these rather pointless Google searches, are probably based on information based on hits from those connecting bad "made for PC and ported badly to Mac" hardware, amongst many more factors that you are failing to take into consideration. So really this is about bad software, not Macs. Perhaps even from recent switchers who don't yet know how to run with a Mac properly, and there are a lot of them too. There's even a magazine in the UK now, dedicated to switchers!
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PS, I just put "Windows XP crashes" into Google, and it came back with a hit figure of 13 million (13,000,000)- which would make sense, (if we are using your logic), because;
a) XP has been around about the same time as OS X,
b) there are a lot more PC's running windows out there,
and
c) W7 is a relatively new operating system.
So like I said, completely pointless research.
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@tfdesign said:
PS, I just put "Windows XP crashes" into Google, and it came back with a hit figure of 13 million (13,000,000)-
So when "OS X crash" gives 5,580,000 hits, and there are about 20 PC users to one Mac user, what does that tell us?
Still, I find these OS wars boring. Neither my daughter's IMac nor my two PCs have crashed once (knock on wood).Anssi
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@anssi said:
So when "OS X crash" gives 5,580,000 hits, and there are about 20 PC users to one Mac user, what does that tell us?
Exactly! Absolutely bugger all!!
A computer is simply a glorified pocket calculator. Beer is far more important!
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@tfdesign said:
@anssi said:
So when "OS X crash" gives 5,580,000 hits, and there are about 20 PC users to one Mac user, what does that tell us?
Exactly! Absolutely bugger all!!
A computer is simply a glorified pocket calculator. Beer is far more important!
Want to see panic? Tell everyone that there's been a severe brewery crash.
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Brewery Crash.......Who said that
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I get teary eyed when I see a beer truck over turned, just imagine a brewery crash
We americans go to war over less.
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we have a saying in the rugby team i'm a part of solo, which might be of interest to you.
"when it comes to alcohol, spillage is lickage."
i've actually had to 'hoover' up a most of a beer off of a pub floor when someone knocked my drink out of my hand.
pav
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