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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (120860)	5/5/2008 8:20:47 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

makes sense...Mac is gaining and gaining for market share

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (120860)	5/6/2008 3:26:28 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

You constantly throw out these hairball opinions and never seem to have any facts to back them up. OK, I'll happily back up my opinion with facts if you can give me a practical way to back up my own personal experience with "facts". I don't have tapes of all the thousands of conversations I've had with Mac users over the years, it would involve many thousands of hours of recording. I do have numerous e-mail exchanges if you think that will suffice. All my photography and design clients are Mac based, so I'd say over the years 95% of the client interaction I've had has been with Mac users. The exception are my corporate clients. I worked on a regular basis in a Mac based shop for many years, sometimes working on the lone PC in a sea of Macs, sometimes working on the Macs. They'd call me in because I'm OS indifferent, I can work on either or both at once. It's the reason I own a pair of ridiculously expensive noise canceling head phones, so I can stay in a zone of calm in the presence of people having perpetual bad computer days. My old studio partner would spend three days and hundreds of dollars rebuilding this or that from scratch. He had a very expensive tech guy in there on a regular basis, he even got to return one G5 as a "lemon" after everything but the case had been swapped out. I was sure it was the case, it was cursed. The very next day after he's gone through this computer Hell he's telling me, "But they are just so much easier to use." It was like he'd forgotten all about the previous days of pain and suffering. Meanwhile the Dell 540 he had sitting in there had been up for five years continuously. I think he rebooted it a sum total of four times- an ironic twist of fate under the circumstance. We sold it to a friend of mine and it's still up. After a while you have to wonder WTF is going on, is owning a Mac like child birth, you can't remember the pain so you'll have another?