Re: FN-FORUM New iMac

date posted 10th January 2002 12:00

People always say Macs are best for design, but I have used a mac at work
and I found that it was crap at processing stuf,, so I went back to my PC


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Subject: RE: FN-FORUM New iMac


> Look, there should be no competition, Macs and PCS were made for very
different uses -
> Macs were made for the creative industry and they serve very well. The
iMac was made
> with education in mind, to make it fun for kids rather that a boring grey
box stuck in a
> corner of the classroom. PCs have mostly been for office use and
programming.
>
> I've only ever used macs because everywhere I've every worked has used
them - that's the
> industry I'm in. If you've always used PCs then carry on, no-one is
telling you to rush out
> and buy an iMac.
>
> Anyway i don't need my iMac to be called 'My Computer' to know what it is
;-)
> ..and its a great space saver!
>
> Lindsey Hill
> www.apperleydesign.co.uk
>
> original message:
> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 04:09:46 -0000
> From: "Nicholas Berry" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM New iMac
>
> I suppose I'm a bit negative about Imacs myself because When I was very
> young I wanted a train set and my parents bought me a little engine, it
was
> really nice, but it didn't have any rails with it and I can remember
> frustratedly trying to tell my parents "wailings wailings" trying to get
> them to understand it wasn't like a real train, I don't think my parents
> thought I could possibly be that bright, but eventually I got through to
> them and I got a new train set with wailings :) I suppose I was quite
spoilt
> in some ways. But the trouble with Imacs they remind me of the trauma of
> having something not quite a full shilling and the whole marketing
strategy
> seems patronising when you just know a real computer has two mouse buttons
> and a floppy disk drive and you can add loads of extra bits to it. So I'm
> afraid the entire imac concept is completely lost on me.
>
> Nick
>
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