Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 10/21/05, Nathan Wajsman <nathan.wajsman@planet.nl> wrote: > Finally, the wealth of software and hardware available for Windows is so > much greater than for Apple, and the prices are of course > correspondingly lower because of the greater competition. I am writing > this on a Win XP machine but using a free browser and free email client, > and I use a lot of other open source software both at home and in the > office. I'm not a Apple proselytizer, I'm actually rather ambivalent toward the brand itself and their aggressive, uniform branding strategies. It's all a little Brave New World creepy for me. That said, I buy for OS X and OS X alone - on that note: OS X comes with its own free browser and e-mail client (Safari and Mail), you can also download Firefox and its e-mail client for free, there's an OS X only Mozilla browser available (Camino), etc. I'm not sure how Windows has the advantage here, as you can even download Internet Explorer (if absolutely necessary) for OS X. Prices, I find, are even across the board. There actually seems to be a greater wealth of usable, productive free and shareware software for OS X. The software advantage, so far as I can tell, applies primarily to Microsoft products (their fault Office v.X is terrible) and games. I don't play games and got my Office suite for $10 through the university, so there's no disadvantage on my end. -- Matt Powell wooderson@gmail.com