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Post by Stormrider on Jul 12, 2007 6:10:40 GMT -6
Andorinha:
Several times you mention your old Mac. I was wondering how you like a Macintosh. My boss has used Macs most of his life and another coworker swears by them, too. With the Mac vs PC commercials, it makes me more and more curious about them.
My boss and coworker swear that they are not the target of viruses like the PCs are and that the upkeep and maintenance on them are much less involved. I guess there are some things a user has to get used to, but they say it is well worth it.
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Post by Andorinha on Jul 12, 2007 8:04:11 GMT -6
I used to have an IBM PC. It never worked as smoothly as my Mac, had lots more screen freezes, bombs, etc. I got rid of it in 1995 and purchased an I-Mac. I've never even had a virus alert on the Mac, while my wife's Dell PC is constantly bombarded with infection attempts, and she has to continually upload patches and anti-viral programs. She still had everything wiped out once, about three years ago, had to have her computer erased by the professionals down town, and all systems re-loaded. She lost ALL of her data in that melt down.
My main problem with the Mac I have is that it would need a memory upgrade to run the newer versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator, but I'm just waiting for the old thing to burn out and I'll buy a new Mac as a replacement. But it seems very tenacious of life! Meanwhile I have all my data stored on zip disks in case it does die suddenly.
I far prefer the ease of use, as well as the screen appearance of the Mac to the PCs.
I'm not certain if the virus problem is less for Macs because it has a superior operating system with fewer chinks in its armor (that's the explanation I've been given) or if there are just fewer Macs out there so the icky hackers concentrate on the PC crowds?
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Post by Stormrider on Jul 12, 2007 17:45:39 GMT -6
Your info sounds like the same thing my boss and coworker have said. Darn! I should have tried one out this last year when I bought mine! Well, next time I will.
I don't normally go into too many chatrooms myself, other than the one we have at TR MSN and the free ones we were thinking of setting up.
Is it just your old Mac that gives you trouble with chatrooms or do you think all Macs will have that problem?
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Post by Andorinha on Jul 12, 2007 19:00:59 GMT -6
Stormrider, each time I try to enter the chatroom here I get a message board: "Allocate more memory to this program." Rather than go into the process of figuring out which programs I can steal memory from (without impairing general systems performance) I just go grab my wife's machine. Interesting enough, the chatroom on another forum that I frequent, Ancient Worlds, works just fine.
I have never heard that the chatroom trouble I have is found elsewhere on other Macs. I still am using a 1998 Internet Explorer version and a 1999 Netscape navigator, so I bet if I just installed updated versions of those two programs (and maybe that would require more memory chips) I'd be OK...
One potential problem with Macs MAY be that some of your favorite games/ programs may not be available in a Mac format?
I'm just too lazy to find out what should be done, and then take the time to do it. lol
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Post by Stormrider on Jul 13, 2007 6:01:15 GMT -6
I don't play games on the computer other than those that come with the pc such as solitaire or time bomb (whatever it is called).
I love the game, Zelda, but I have that on one of those little hand held thingys that my grandson outgrew and I inherited. I need to crash the second castle but I haven't played in about 4 months now so I probably have to go and reacquaint myself with all my weapons and tools and how to move around!
Well, it will be a long time before I get a new computer anyway since I just got this one last year and it has all kinds of graphic features on it that I haven't even used yet! lol
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