Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/20

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Subject: [Leica] New Apple software, Aperture
From: cochranpr at mac.com (David Cochran)
Date: Thu Oct 20 07:42:28 2005
References: <BF7C6425.7020%bdcolen@comcast.net> <4a44bae962202e990c3cd90c2f7ae0fa@paulhardycarter.com> <6.2.5.6.2.20051020142740.038d0cd8@screengang.com> <cf017718802cf2851e83edacd5be9d4e@paulhardycarter.com> <EA9CA8BD0A10C8C9767987A3@rutabook.reid.org> <071b519fa0e589ca5369a91340b9c30d@paulhardycarter.com>

And these Macites can drive you to the roof very much like the PC techies....

:-)


D. 
On Thursday, October 20, 2005, at 07:25AM, PHC <paul@paulhardycarter.com> 
wrote:

>It's always struck me that the Mac seems to appeal to two groups.
>
>The first group is people who don't want to know about computers but 
>just want to use them (home users, designers...). Then you get the 
>people who don't use Macs, who like to know about computers, and like 
>to play around with caches and busses, to open up the box and get stuck 
>in.
>
>Then you get the second group of Macites - the most extreme "techies", 
>for whom the computer on their desk is simply a tool again.
>
>Just an observation. Probably nonsense.
>
>P.
>
>*******
>Paul Hardy Carter
>www.paulhardycarter.com
>*******
>
>On 20 Oct 2005, at 15:23, Brian Reid wrote:
>
>> For the last half-dozen years my profession has been high-end IT 
>> administration management at leading-edge tech companies. I've 
>> observed that 90% of the cream of the crop of IT technical experts 
>> have Macs as their personal computers, and put a Mac on their desk if 
>> their manager allowed it. At my last 3 jobs, the typical desktop 
>> contents of the top IT experts at a company was 1 state-of-the-art Mac 
>> and 1 beater PC.
>>
>> This is probably not true at more ordinary companies that use IT but 
>> don't try to push it.
>
>
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