My second Mac

[Zane H. Healy]

At 4:16 PM -0800 1/6/07, Fred Cisin wrote:
>Although the "Mac culture" denies it vehemently, and claims that
>"everything just works when you connect it", I think that it is
>pretty much identical to the PC world of that time.

It really depends a lot on how good of a company made the product 
you're trying to use.  Plus if you by Pro software I think you'll 
have an easier go than with consumer grade software.  I've owned a 
Mac since '95, and the except for a couple of OS updates that weren't 
worth running, everything has pretty much just worked, with a couple 
exceptions.  Getting Professional Audio Hardware and software to work 
together, and the Kodak Camera's printer dock we got a few years ago.

One really important thing to have a nice stable well behaved Mac has 
been to stay away from 3rd party OS extensions.  I've done that for 
my last 3 systems, as a result they've been rock solid.

I have yet to see things on the Windows side of the computer world be 
anywhere near as simple as with a Mac.

Zane

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