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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KonKilo who wrote (13334)	2/26/2006 9:46:53 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541878

Thanks for the advice, Ken. The downside is that the Mac doesn't handle Java apps quite as well as PCs do and if you have many apps open at once, doesn't multitask quite as fast. At least this has been my experience. That troubles me. One of the two stock trading programs I use has a web based version. It uses Java to deliver real time stock and option quotes. Sounds like I best check that out. Does it matter which browser one uses? You will also occasionally find that a PC version of such and such software has been released but the Mac version release is lagging or not planned at all. Boy, do I remember that one from my previous Mac experience. My wife and I, I think I typed this earlier, bought a Mac in 84, when they first came out; and quickly bought another before our fights over who got to use it escalated too far. I do recall that problem until I switched. And now I learn that Virtual PC is not available for the Intel Macs. Though, as I did type, there is interesting speculation about a Unix based program, Darwine, which would permit Windows programs to boot, natively, on the Intel chip. No need even for an emulator like Virtual PC. Microsoft Office has a Mac version that is typically more evolved than the PC version, and you can share Office docs with PC users transparently and vice versa. That's essential. For my wife's work and my community activities. Everyone, absolutely everyone, uses Word and a great many use Excel. If MS were to pull out of their software development deal with Apple and their Windows programs would not run on the new Intel chips, that would be a major problem. The Mac browser, Safari, is the best I have used; far faster and more stable than Internet Exploder or even Firefox. I rarely use IE now but still have problems printing with Firefox. So if Safari is better, so much the better. As for the niche market apprehension, just remember that Lexus also sells into a small niche. <g> Good point. And even a better point in that Lexus dealerships are fairly common. As, now, are Apple Stores. Thanks again.