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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (3237)	11/23/2002 9:58:13 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 6901

I used a Mac a little bit for a class last year. Only one mouse button. No right clicking. Drove me nuts.

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (3237)	11/24/2002 1:17:24 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

I've never owned a Mac, but I do lots of multitrack recording and graphics work (3D, CAD, Photoshop, etc.) on my pcs (I build them myself these days), and although I know it may have been true at one time, I'd be hard pressed to believe there's much that can be done on a Mac these days that can't be done on a pc. Macs used to be the preferred platform for low end graphics work, but todays video cards make that pretty moot. Macs and PCs get the same vid cards. Macs have a leg up (barely) on stability, because Apple controls the platform and Mac doesn't have the screwy driver and library issues PCs under Windows have. Macs are fun little machines, purty, but their functional niche has disappeared. They're "lifestyle" machines now. PCs even cut into traditional Unix niches these days. Cluster together a bunch of cheap PCs running Linux and you've got a supercomputer for a fraction of the price. Eh. Derek