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voidmain:
I seriously doubt they would let me get away with asking such questions...

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quote:http://www.bcentral.com/articles/komando/104.asp?cobrand=msn&LID=3800:
Why Windows has the edge over the Mac

Kim Komando Have you seen those Apple commercials about people who switched from Microsoft Windows? I especially liked the woman who described her Windows-based computer as "that horrid little machine."

I could have been that woman. But after using an Apple iMac for two months, I'm not. And that's what this column is about. I know there are people out there struggling with Windows. Computers are complicated machines. I get more than 50,000 call attempts per hour on my national talk-radio show, the majority of which are questions from Windows users.

Actually, I considered not writing this column, regardless of the test results. Writing about Windows versus Apple is a no-win situation.

But if you disagree with my conclusions, please think twice before flaming me. My opinions are honest, I promise. I tried hard to be very fair to both sides. And just to set the record straight, I was not influenced one bit by the fact this column runs on a Microsoft-owned site. In fact, I started my testing months before I began contributing weekly columns to Microsoft bCentral.

Let's get started

My odyssey with the iMac started back in May, when I was asked by Apple Computer if I would like a three-month loaner. Well, what the heck? Send it on, I said.

The big test started in June, when I hauled it out of its box. Hmmm, I thought, this is one cute little guy. I was immediately reminded of the TV commercial where the man on the sidewalk strikes poses, and an iMac in the store window mimics him.

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If you haven't seen the iMac, let me describe it. The computer itself is inside a round base. Attached to that is an arm, and a 15-inch flat-panel screen sits on the arm's end. The screen is easily adjustable, so you can always look at it head-on.

The keyboard is encased in clear plastic, as is the mouse. Even the speakers are clear plastic. The iMac is very, very stylish. Surrounded by Windows machines in my offices, it looked like a debutante at a frumps' convention.

Time to do some work

I was determined to do all my work on this machine. I wanted to give it a thorough test drive. We have a building full of Windows computers, networked via cable. The first test was getting the iMac on the network. That was a piece of cake. Just a few entries were needed in System Preferences.

The computer came with Internet Explorer, and I installed Netscape for e-mail. Apple has a native e-mail application, but I couldn't get it to work. That was no big deal, really.

I have had some experience with Macs, but it had been a while. So I had to learn the iMac, which was running the OS X operating system. My productivity immediately plunged. The iMac will do most of what Windows does, but it often does things differently. The Help system was somewhat sketchy, similar to Windows.

But once I got to know the iMac, I found more similarities between Windows and OS X than differences. The filing systems are alike, to a great degree. Windows Explorer's counterpart is Macintosh HD. There are differences in the ways files and folders are manipulated, but they are minor.

One of the great things about Windows is "Alt+Tab," with which you can jump from window to window. On the iMac, it's "Cmd+Tab." Instead of showing the selection of windows in the middle of the screen, the selector moves through them at the bottom of the screen. The thing at the bottom is the Dock. It took me a little while to figure out what was happening. But it's actually very similar to Windows.

We do lots of writing here at Komando Town, and Microsoft Word is the preferred application. Swapping the Mac files with my staff on Windows machines was no problem.

Word files opened easily in either system. Things seemed seamless, whether we were writing on the iMac or the Windows machines. We did little with Excel and nothing with PowerPoint, but I'll bet they would have been equally flawless. So if you're using Microsoft's Office package, you should have no trouble swapping files.

The iMac came with ClarisWorks, a less capable office package. I didn't use that, although I have ClarisWorks for Windows on an old machine. I always liked that old version of ClarisWorks.

Speed can be an issue

The only disappointing aspect of the iMac was its lack of speed. Don't get me wrong: It wasn't that it was particularly slow

voidmain:
Couple of thoughts about Kim. One, from listening to her program she sounds like she spent a few years on a Windows help desk and thinks she knows everything about computers based on her entire life dedicated to Windows. When in fact a person who's life has been dedicated to Windows knows very little about "computers".

Having dedicated her life to Microsoft and Windows there is really no way she could use any other system for 3 months and be as comfortable with it as she is with the system she's sold her soul to. It will always be a comparison between what she knows well and could never get a fair shake because she would likely be looking for equivelant items rather than finding out about the things that you just can't do in Windows.

And it also appears that the things she does find that are similar she says that it's "similar to Windows" rather than the the reverse which is more likely the case should have been "Windows is similar to Mac" since Windows has always been an Apple rip off. After years of brain washing can you really expect a person like this to be able to "think different" in a 3 month trial which would persuade her to change, which of course would blow her entire business of making her living off of Windows deficiencies?

Besides making her living off of Windows deficiencies I have little doubt that she is funded by the evil empire itself... Just my opinion.

RudeCat7:
She sounds like your typical "dipshit". But worse! She's giving advice to other dipshits, and she doesn't know that 800mhz on an Apple is not the same as 800mhz on her POS windows box!

God! Computers have their own "Dr. Laura"  :mad:

KernelPanic:
This article amused me greatly because it proved the point that windows makes you stupid(er)

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