Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/24

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Subject: [Leica] I and Mac
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri Aug 24 20:53:26 2007

> In a message dated 8/24/2007 4:52:07 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> lug-request@leica-users.org writes:
> 
> ran,  paid for and kept current Norton anti virus for years it never did
> nothin  except screw up my computer making it hard to install stuff.
> And washed my  hands before I touched my keyboard.
> 
> 
> Mark William  Rabiner
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Apple only represents 5% of the computer market. Therefore,  few
> troublemakers find the Mac worth the effort to subvert. Besides, Apple is
> always updating 
> System X with anti-virus files. As does MS from W2K Pro to  Vista.
>  
> I always have a Mac on deck, but seldom use it, except for  backup when my 
> PC
> needs some offline work -- which is now very rare with W2K  Pro.
>  
> System X will make a real mess of any Mac model if  you fool with their 
> hard
> drive installation and mix it up with a  reinstall of the OS 
> simultaneouslyB.
> MS always has workarounds most problems.  Jobs was so confident of his
> modification of UNIX that he neglected the worse  case scenarios. If you 
> use a
> Mac, 
> leave it alone. That's my personal rule.
>  
> In any case, if I can find a G4 Mac Mini used at a low enough  price, I'd 
> get
> it. The new Mac Mini will be running Intel's Penryn 45nm chipset,  related 
> to
> the PC type, so the Mini will be able to run Windows as well as  System X 
> very
> , very fast. Sometimes I think Jobs is a genius. Jobs knows he's a  genius.
>  
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
Yes but all the very cool and nice people use Macs.
For sure by far most photographers do.
And graphic artists.
Video people maybe.

Kids.
Their dogs.





Mark William Rabiner
Harlem, NY

rabinergroup.com



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