Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well I am most definitely not a member of the 'only good pc is a dead pc,' or the 'only good mac is one with special sauce, lettuce, cheese' brigades. But my experience has been that when either of my windows machines - Thinkpad and custom built desktop, former running XP, latter running 2000 - freeze up, I have to reboot the machine, not just the program. And I still have virus probs, despite various electronic condoms. All of that said, however, I can still live comfortably in either world. But damn, I would miss the search function in OS X.4 if I had to give up the Powerbook. On 10/20/05 11:51 AM, "Didier Ludwig" <rangefinder@screengang.com> wrote: > It's funny how every mac-related topic on this list turns into a pro/anti > mac/pc thread... > > Stability or viruses are not really an issue. I see the main differences in > interface design (+++ for mac) and price (+++ for pc). My XP workstation > runs > as stable as OSX and I can kill any frozen app at any time (CTRL-ALT-DEL); > but > I can't remember when I needed that hack the last time. Most viruses are > kept > back by my ISP or my mailserver. The (very) few incoming ones are killed > by a > local application. But I definitely miss something like the "finder" on my > pc... > > Didier > >> One thing has drawn me to the Mac- the stability of the operating system, >> and the ability to close out a single frozen application without having to >> restart the whole damn machine. Oh, and the fact that virus infection is >> an >> almost non-existent problem. Beyond that, I can function equally well on a >> PC or a Mac. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information