I’m at work and just wanted to let everyone know that my home internet connection, from which chiff & fipple affairs are managed, has suffered a catastrophic failure of the Chiff & Fipple Cray Supercomputer and Related Server Farms. This appears to be a Windows XP problem which I am going to try to solve with a “clean” installation of XP. This requires backup about 9 terrabytes of information, enough to cause a brown-out in the Southeastern USA. So, I will be offline and more or less unable to respond to email for awhile.
dale, for security reasons, i think you should stay aboard the royal yacht during this transitional period. dale force is grounded with windows until further notice
just over the mountain ( i think ) from you , tansy
Why not?
Macs are more powerful = recorders are cromatic
lots more options = lots more holes
you can do more stuff with them
they can be gotten in cheap ugly plastic or they can be gotten in pretty materials (both of those would be the Imacs, it all depends on your point of view)
It all works out, if I was thinking harder I could probably come up with more well thought out reasons though
I remember some discussion about people who can drive a car over their whistles and not damage them. I once saw a rcordr shatter into pieces by being dropped. A Mac will crash at every opportunity. My high school yearbook class used Mcs, and every single one crashed at least once per class. Case 2: I logged on to a Mc in the lab at school, because all the PCs were taken (wonder why..) and it gave 6 (count 'em) error messages in the process of logging on. Then it crashed.
Dale, your site is too good to trust it to a M*c. Please don’t “switch”
That is the sort of propaganda Bill Gates and DELL like to spread around
1-If once it was true that Macs were a bit temperamental, they are MUCH more stable today.
2-Any time my Macs crashed (old or new), I was able to handle the problem myself. At work, where I have to use a Windows machine, any issue, however small, requires the help of a “Systems Engineer” (Your Company Computer Guy). I think it is a conspiracy by the makers of Windows and Windows PCs to keep users in the dark and in submission.
3-Finally, a high school lab is hardly the place to judge ANY computer’s reliability, as they are constantly tinkered with by lovely mopheads.
I am forced to use a PC at work sometimes, and it crashes at least as often as my Macs, which I use about 10 times as much, both in terms of time and amount of software used.
A colleague was boasting a few weeks ago about a piece of software that he’d found that does something-or-other, and now he only has to re-install Windoze about once a year as opposed to 3-4 times a year. I’ve had to re-install on a Mac once or twice in 13 years, and that was because of hardware problems.
I think it is a conspiracy by the makers of Windows and Windows PCs to keep users in the dark and in submission.
I feel the exact opposite, but maybe it’s just what you’re used to. I can fix just about any problem I have with a Windows based PC, but when I try to help my Dad with his Mac G4 it seems like getting to the nuts and bolts of a problem is next to impossible. Everything important and useful is buried under many layers of user-friendliness (which isn’t really very user-friendly IMHO).
However, while I haven’t tried OSX, I think the move towards a Unix based system is a nice idea and these probably don’t crash much at all.
Likewise, if getting a Mac, stick to the “Classic” System if your first goal is stability. My G4 pixel power-cruncher never crashes, but remains on Mac OS 9.2.2.
Now, for Internet, music, and such uses, I don’t see what could be needed more than an eMac. And still delivered with the choice of OS X and Classic.
