Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 1/20/03 3:32:45 PM, cpultz@earthlink.net writes: << Anyway, it's not a religion, except to the Apostles of Apple. It's a stupid computer. I'm all for Linux, though I'm not yet very skilled with it. (Wouldn't give one to my mother to figure out!) And I guess MAC is still better for color management, so I should have one for photography, and to experience the legendary superiority. And to see one is to want one! But at the moment, I have to stay with the people's choice, down here with the democratic rabble. Best - Carl >> I don't know, I think there are quasi-religious freaks on both sides. All I know is that when I got my first computer, it was a Mac. Why? Because I am admittedly not very good with technology. I'm okay at low levels and then I start to have mini-embolisms if something goes wrong with the tech and I can't fix it easily. My mac had a happy face. Files that looked like files. Bongs of death when something went really wrong. My mac never made me feel like I had to become a machine in order for me to use my machine. I remember my geek friends telling me I should dump my mac and get "a real computer." Every time they'd come over to my house it was the first thing that came out of their mouths. That and if they could have a beer. Whilst sucking down some pale ale they'd nearly always advise me, "you could get a computer that even makes you coffee for the price you paid for your mac." Maybe so. But I don't see what good a cheaper product is (even if it can give you back massages, run the treasuries of small nations, or host a porn site) it you can't figure out to use it. I simply didn't like, and don't particularly like still, the operating system used by Pc's. And still, even now, when I'm running a G3 that is sufficient for my purposes, I STILL have PC folks act like that unless they convince me to go PC that their dog will be killed at dawn. I've never tried to get folks to switch to Macs, but if I could have a dollar for every PC dude (and a couple gals) who've tried to get me to switch to PC, well, I could afford the 135mm R- 3cam lens that I've been coveting. Kim (Paw week 3 @ http://www.vonseidl.net/patchouli/KMVSPAWweek3.html) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html