Ferrari Mailing List: Re: PC Vs MAC NFC No Ferrari Content

[Larry T (l02turner]

WOW!  Those posts are full of great info!   I am struck by the comments 
made several made saying - I have a PC and a Mac - and after all the 
comments it sounds like it might be preferable to run both machines??  Is 
that correct?

It also sounded like W7 made some great advances in reliability and user 
friendliness - it wouldn't have to do much to improve on the Vista POS.  I 
so desperately wanted to put XP on my new laptop - with SATA - I eventually 
gave up.....

Now, I find myself thinking about upgrading to W7.    I need my puters for 
business apps - it sounded like PC does that better - also - the software 
isn't as compatible as I thought it seems -

thx ya'll -

LarryT
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From: "Mike Fleischer" <themightytoe [at] gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:23 PM
To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] PC Vs MAC NFC No Ferrari Content

> I will tag onto Jim's comments (since he is clearly a rabid command line
> user, and should really not be allowed to talk technology with normal
> folks :))
>
> The blame goes to windows, because they do expose themselves to 3rd
> party drivers, and overall Microsoft's software development processes
> are not as good as Apple's.  Apple's biggest drawback is they limit what
> their stuff can do, very intentionally, where Windows there are 20 ways
> to do the same thing, pretty much as a matter of course.
>
> Owning all the hardware and drivers is a huge advantage.  And this is
> why my Windows XP machine will go down once or twice a week running
> "hardcore business applications" and my mac book pro goes down maybe
> once every 3 months when it gets some unknown USB device with 3rd party
> support.  Same problems less frequent symptoms on the Mac.  HP and Dell
> also carefully control their boxes, and its why they limit what options
> you have.  But the difference is someone who slaps components and
> software together vs well the same thing, only the software is under
> direct control.
>
> I am typing this on a Win7 box, its decent and completely flexible for
> doing whatever I want and it excels at running games which I do once
> every 6 months for about a week before I get bored.
>
> For work I run a 15" MacBook Pro, same memory and processor as the
> desktop running win7.  Its a faster machine in every respect for
> applications like Thunderbird and Firefox and MS Office (all mac
> versions).  No question its not better hardware than my frankenPC but
> the OS is better (yes than Win7) and memory management is far superior.
>
> If you don't like screwing with all the PC stuff but have to run PC
> applications, get a Mac or macbook.  Spend $70 on parallels or VMWare
> Fusion and run Windows 7 or XP (or Ubuntu) on top of the Mac OSX.  Been
> doing that for 2 years now and its fantastic.  You could boot camp it
> also but the VM software really runs very fast and when windows blue
> screens, reboot is about 15 to 30 seconds...
>
> My $ 0.02
>
> And while I am no fan of any particular widget, I do know when I see a
> well built one and a well implemented design on one, and so far no one
> in the PC industry besides Apple has gotten it, which I find astonishing
> in its own right.
>
>
> Jim Conforti wrote:
> > I'm not an Apple basher, own both an iPhone and an iPad.
> >
> > I just have no use for a sexy GUI on top of some *nix operating system.
> >
> > OS-X and the various Linuxes are just that.
> >
> > More importantly, too many users blame "Windows" for a fault of
> > a driver or an program.
> >
> > The PC - being an open system, allows manufacturers to make hardware
> > and drivers that sometimes are .. well.. less than stable.
> >
> > But the fanbois blame "Windows".
> >
> > A crappy application can also bring down EITHER a Mac or a PC.
> >
> > My 0.02 - get a PC w/ Windows 7.
> >
> > Don't use Outlook or Outlook Express - Use Thunderbird 3.1
> >
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