RE: FN-FORUM how do i get a screenshot?

date posted 7th July 2001 11:35

Oh great a platform War ;-}
Yes in my experience of Macs it almost seems a peculiarity of the Motorola
processor that it will bomb out seemingly for no reason at all every 20 to
30 mins if it's running well, the Atari ST was the same. With Pcs it seems
that Windows is the weakest link, whereas Intel or AMD processors seem very
reliable and stable, It's just Windows occasionally gets amnesia or just
seems to try to remember too much till it grinds to a halt I always find
Windows Explorer is a pain for this. (If my processor crashed every 20 - 30
minutes this probably wouldn't happen)

Of course the worst scenario imaginable would perhaps be a Mac running
Windows (it isn't unknown) Of course if one could put OSX in an Intel based
machine then I dare say one might presumably have the best of both worlds.
Saying that if life was perfect there would be nothing to talk about (it
would be like banning the weather) which is perhaps why Windows is so
popular ;-)

Nick

http://www.artberry.net





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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM how do i get a screenshot?


At 13:17 06/07/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>Yes we have humour. How else do we manage to cope with all the stressed out
>PC users tearing their hair out and cursing thier machines.
>It makes it easier for us to just laugh at them and keep working, so yes
Mac
>users have a sence of humour.

I think you must be a little out of touch. I have two PCs here running
Windows Me and neither has crashed since installation around a year ago.
When I managed a team of designers their macs were crashing about once an
hour. And don't forget that a lot of the Windows 95+ user interface was
based on the mac's user interface anyway!

>PC users obviously don't otherwise they'd realise that the grey box on
their
>desk is not a computer but a farce.

Very funny!

All I will add is that:

1. It took Apple years to sort out relatively problem-free Internet access
for the mac properly, but there are still many issues within a networked
environment.
2. Don Norman, who worked on the original design of the mac, admits that it
was released with bugs that still remain even today.
3. If the mac is so great, why did they develop an Windows PC emulator for
it and provide it with the ability to read and write PC format disks?!

All the best,

--
Ian Fenn
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