Ferrari Mailing List: Re: NFC - What Mac to get?

[Robert W. Garven Jr. (rgarven]

I am not an expert like Rick or both Steves.  But I have had 5 macs and after working with 6 PC’s at work and 1 Sun workstation, I want to hug my imac evertime I come home.

Here is what it does great, all music, photos, email, internet. I use photoshop and MS office files which are seamless with my PC office files at work.

What I love is the simplicity. Actually they are trying to dumb them down fro us power users to be more like the ipad or iphone but even with that they have so many pluses.

If you click on most any file and touch the spacebar the file opens up a preview without launching the program, volume controls on the keyboard, I could go on all night. oh

it takes dictation will read back anything written in about 100 voices, although I think my OS is cheating on me, it says im the only one……….

I would get a wired keyboard with the numbers and a wired mouse (I use a Kensington Expert Trackball and always have and will)

I love mine, but then Im not a genius like some of you

Robert W. Garven Jr.

rgarven [at] gmail.com

 "The Ferrari is a dream - people dream of owning this special vehicle and for most people it will remain a dream apart from for those lucky few." Enzo Ferrari

On Feb 10, 2015, at 1:01 PM, Peter Pless <ferrarilist [at] pless.com.au> wrote:

That was very informative. Thanks.

 

From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+ferrarilist=pless.com.au [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of Charles Perry
Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2015 7:19 AM
To: Peter Pless
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] NFC - What Mac to get?

 

Definitely agree with Paul. We have two macs (iMac / Mac Mini) and a dozen PCs in the house. The Macs get used for nothing but internet. Doing even simple maintenance/configuration things on the Macs requires a Google search every time because they are built for people who are not technically oriented. Thusly, anyone who is technically oriented will find the way they organize things on Macs frustrating and obtuse.

 

Also we have had hard drive failure recalls on both Mac machines. Not an issue in and of itself (things fail), but the Apple store is absolutely maddening about how they handle repairs. You cannot just drop off a box and tell them what’s wrong with it. You have to make an appointment to come to the store, sit with a “Genius”, watch them troubleshoot it until they can tell you what you already know, and then they will accept it for repair. When we got the Mini back from the Geniuses, they had loaded the regular OS on it (instead of the Server version I turned it in with) and just said “Oh, you can re-load the right one at home. We don’t have the discs here for the Server version.”

 

My brother switched to Macs several years ago hoping to avoid PC issues like viruses and Malware. He loaded it with Parallels to let him run Win7 and software that isn’t available on Mac. His subsequent problems were infuriating, and neither the Apple nor the PC people wanted to help with his hybrid/bastardized config, preferring to point the fingers at each other instead.

 

I will be the first to tell you that whoever approved Win8.1 should be skinned alive and soaked in acetone prior to being set ablaze. However, if I were buying a new machine tomorrow, I would get one with Win7. It is stable, friendly and reliable and you can still get a wide variety of hardware configs that include Win7. We use TigerDirect.Com a lot, but everyone has their favorites. I also have one laptop where I’ve been running the Technical Preview of Windows 10 for a couple of weeks now. It is much more intuitive than Win8. It basically has added some of the look of 8 to the proper enterprise functionality that 7 had and made it a usable machine again. It does have a few nice features like multiple desktops. Still prefer 7, but time marches on. And 10 will be a free upgrade for Win7/8/8.1 users on release. A fitting apology for Win8.

 

There, that feels better. Haven’t had a proper rant in a bit…

 

-- charles

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