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From: ray on 10 Aug 2010 04:00 Microsoft has posted a Mac vs PC section to it's Win7 website. <http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/compare/pc-vs-mac.aspx> There are some pretty lame reasons for choosing a PC but this jumped out at me on the Simplicity page. "Things just don't work the same way on Macs if you're used to a PC. For example, the mouse works differently." Eh? -- http://www.dream-weaver.com/email.php Web development promotion and seo http://www.spaldingcomputers.co.uk http://www.overseasmovingsolutions.com/
From: J. J. Lodder on 10 Aug 2010 04:07 ray <datasmog(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Microsoft has posted a Mac vs PC section to it's Win7 website. > <http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/compare/pc-vs-mac.aspx> > There are some pretty lame reasons for choosing a PC but this jumped out > at me on the Simplicity page. > > "Things just don't work the same way on Macs if you're used to a PC. For > example, the mouse works differently." Sure, the Microsoft made mouse sucks, Jan
From: Rowland McDonnell on 10 Aug 2010 04:18 ray <datasmog(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Microsoft has posted a Mac vs PC section to it's Win7 website. > <http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/compare/pc-vs-mac.aspx> > There are some pretty lame reasons for choosing a PC but this jumped out > at me on the Simplicity page. > > "Things just don't work the same way on Macs if you're used to a PC. For > example, the mouse works differently." > > Eh? `You mustn't change to a Mac because Macs are different to Windoze and Windoze is what you know so you've got to carry on using what you know and learn nothing new, because new is bad and new is scary and you want everything to be familiar, fear the unknown, loathe that which is different, stay in the safe world of Windoze and let Uncle Microsoft look after you, you know it's what you really want'. Is roughly the message that they're putting across... Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Geoff Berrow on 10 Aug 2010 04:23 On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:00:02 +0100, datasmog(a)hotmail.com (ray) wrote: >"Things just don't work the same way on Macs if you're used to a PC. For >example, the mouse works differently." No right click on a Mac mouse is there? -- Geoff Berrow (Put thecat out to email) It's only Usenet, no one dies. My opinions, not the committee's, mine. Simple RFDs www.4theweb.co.uk/rfdmaker
From: Rowland McDonnell on 10 Aug 2010 04:24
J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > ray <datasmog(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Microsoft has posted a Mac vs PC section to it's Win7 website. > > <http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/compare/pc-vs-mac.aspx> > > There are some pretty lame reasons for choosing a PC but this jumped out > > at me on the Simplicity page. > > > > "Things just don't work the same way on Macs if you're used to a PC. For > > example, the mouse works differently." > > Sure, the Microsoft made mouse sucks, Actually, I've been rather impressed with the purely optical mice with MS branding that I've met. I assume that they're all actually *MADE* by Foxcomm or some other less well known Chinese manufacturing plant. Rowland. (who thinks that the best Mac mice were the old mechanical ones - not sure, but I suspect that I prefer the ADB 1 mouse of all mice. What with the size and shape of my hands and arms and so on, I like the original Mac mice too. They have the advantage of hardly ever getting clogged up - I've used one of mine on carpet for extended periods and it's not only tracked okay (that's `okay' rather than `well'[1]) but not got clogged in the process.) [1] I had a lot of Macs in the one room all networked for a fiddle - the floor was the convenient place to stick the 512Ke or Plus or whichever it was, and /then/ I thought about mousing, and /then/ I found that I didn't have to bother moving the mouse mat around. `Coo', thought I, `I wonder how long I can get away with this before it gets clogged up or somesuch?' so I carried on to find out and it just didn't get clogged so I tried some more and some more and it just carried on working fine. Never had to clean out either (or any?) of my pre-ADB Mac mice. Bloody marvellous design if you ask me, bloody marvellous. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |