Re: [Leica] Computer question

[Eric Welch <eric@jphotog.com>]

Okay, I give up. So much FUD.

Macs started it. Not Windows. They may not have been affordable - 
though they are competitive now for equal quality in terms of build, 
features and performance - except now at the high end where the dual 
2GHz G5 blows the doors off the Dual Xeon 3.02 GHz Dell that cost 
$1,000 more, in Photoshop and a bunch of other professional and 
scientific applications. And as for UNIX, OS X costs way less than 
Windows XP Professional. And XP doesn't have nearly the features or 
development tools that come in OS X for free. Not to mention all the 
UNIX tools, Apache Server, a Mail Server, an FTP server, and lost of 
other network and productivity tools - and I'm not talking about the 
Server version which has GUI tools Unix admins can only dream of, and 
has unlimited client licenses for free unlike any version of Windows 
server!

In the home, Macs are gaining in market share right now. They're back 
up to 10 percent or so. In businesses they're down to about 3 percent, 
but IT magazines are now saying "Take a look at Macs." When was the 
last time that happened?

It's a new world. And the reason I bring this up is that Apple is a 
very viable platform for the home as well as for professionals. 
Especially for photographers. Color management is clearly superior 
again with the latest versions of OS X.  You can produce PDFs from the 
OS in any native application. Graphics performance is beyond reproach. 
And unless you a major gamer, there's no reason not to at least give it 
a fair look next time one is upgrading (or trying to recover from the 
virus/trojan horse of the week).

I'm tired of Windows users using the same old arguments they 
legitimately used 10 years ago, which are no longer true, and in fact 
are quite the opposite of reality.

Okay, I've had my say, now I'll shut up. :-P

On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 10:05  AM, Phong wrote:

> Don't mean to get into the Mac vs Windows religious war, but
> technical merits aside, Windows (and Microsoft) achieves the one
> thing that Unix, Mac, and a whole slew of others couldn't.  And
> that is making it affordable and popular, thereby making it
> eminently more useful.
Eric
Carlsbad, CA

Associate not with evil men, lest you increase their number. - Frank 
Herbert

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