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To: Bill who wrote (26411)	9/21/1999 7:35:00 PM
From: Mark Palmberg	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213176

I suppose you prefer computers, not toys? Oh Bill. Please. This is a joke, right? The "toy" I have sitting on my desk at home is faster, more stable, and easier to use than any of the couple hundred Windows machines used where I work (the graphics people are lucky enough to get to use Macs). And mine looks cool, to boot! (Not "cooler." "Cool." As opposed to "Not cool.") This is an iMac. Now go take a look at the Powerbooks. A toy? Not even you could think so. Do you have a problem with the OS? What is it? What can the average consumer NOT do on the Mac OS that they can do on Windows. Hmmm? And please don't try the "protected memory" line on me, because I live with a Windows machine eight hours a day, and protected memory don't mean shit to me when Excel crashes going into print preview and takes my whole system down with it. I'll be waiting. Good luck. Mark PS I didn't even bother mentioning the G4, which effectively rip off the head of Dell's fastest desktop and crap down its neck. Some toy....

To: Bill who wrote (26411)	9/21/1999 9:17:00 PM
From: Louis Gray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213176

I can quickly surmise from post that you have never tried to use an iMac. I use Macintosh and tolerate PCs, so let me show you a typical situation... At work, I have an AMD 400 MHz whitebox computer which does what I need to, which is running Microsoft Office applications, Adobe products (Photoshop/Acrobat/Illustrator) and communication tools, such as Outlook Express and Qualcomm's Eudora. The machine works relatively well, as long as I don't ask it to run too many things at once. I can routinely expect it to crash once or twice a day, through hangs or blue screens of death. At home, I have an iMac 233 Mhz which runs Microsoft Office, all the Adobe apps, the communications software, and many other things I have installed, from FileMaker Pro to MP3 decoders. But in the event that I needed a Windows-only product (and this has come up maybe twice in six months), I purchased Virtual PC and can run Windows 98 through the emulation. Of course it is slower, due to the emulation, but not by much. The only time I have ever noticed anything that was considerably slower was trying to run 3D games through emulation, and the performance was not what I wanted. I ran them only to see how well they did, as I don't care much for those games. Win98 crashes on occasion, but when it does, I simply restart Virtual PC, and my Macintosh is not damaged at all, and does not require a restart. Virtual PC uses my iMac modem and prints to my printer through the iMac USB ports -- which Win98 can see thanks to USB compatibility added by Gates and Co. Now that I have two OS's up and running, out of sheer curiousity, I installed LinuxPPC, which gives me full Linux on the Macintosh -- without emulation. It too works great, and I have never had trouble with it. Linux is in the stage where there are no applications that I need that run only on it, that are not available for Macintosh. But it's fun to have, and my little consumer machine now triple-boots Windows, Linux and Macintosh, and features 160 Megabytes of RAM. I don't try to task the machine I have at work, for fear it may crash. My iMac simply doesn't crash. The other week I told my coworker that the last time the iMac crashed (about 6 weeks ago), I had started laughing because it was so unexpected. It's simply a great machine, inside and out. Even Windows runs better on a Macintosh. That same coworker I spoke to has now purchased a PowerBook G3/400 and hooks it to the company's LAN through the DAVE application. It is now the fastest machine in our office, including our UNIX servers. While neither of these machines was targeted as business machines, they can and do the work that Intel PCs can not. Prior to your continuing your ignorant bashing, I suggest a little research on your part. Study more, and then come back to talk to us.