(WinBlows) Ha ha, Vista's just an OSX ripoff

Oh yeah, real docking stations and no thrid party kludges. Another blow
against Apple.

You have never worked with Macs (not MAC) or OSX not OS/x - Your
improper use of the terms shows you are lying.

Macs have much better software than Windows does today, so you mean
there isn't anything on "Windows" that can't be done on Macs, not the
other way around. Macs run EVERY OS used today, it's the most universal
system sold. Macs have over 16,500 programs all of them better than the
65,000 or so versions on Windows.

Macs are now the same price as any top tier PC Vendor since Apple builds
more of the same model than most PC Vendors and there is no Microsoft
Tax which makes PCs slightly more expensive if you look at the features.
The days of Macs being "more expensive" died years ago. Just try and
configure something like this, with as many features on the PC, bet you
can't.

http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html

Yes, there are more games for PCs. Good for you... you got one right!

you win 100 Points!
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What? the MacBook Pro has several EVDO card options, just google around
for them and it will come up. This will get you started.

http://snipurl.com/qnqc

A right trackpad button? it's been on PowerBooks and MacBooks for over a
year.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2006/6/2/4195

Most Mac users don't need "training wheels" of the 2nd button, but if
you still do, you now have it.

a Forward Delete Key has been there for over a decade!

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86780

Style plays very little into Macs, it's all about the details and
quality of the product, operating system and software.

PCs don't have any of this, that's why smart people always buy Macs.

http://www.apple.com/macbook/macbook.html

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

 

No, Unix started out as a hobby. But since it is over thirty years old,
it's had a lot of time to get its act cleaned up. Plus, it started out
better than Microsoft and has had a better attitude about security all
along. Microsoft is almost as old BUT they have never really cared
about security, only about getting caught.

 

you sure don't know much about Macs. First of all you don't need
"docking stations" with the advent of the "wireless" era. Both your
internet connection and printers (usb or whatever) are all wireless on
Macs. If you need a monitor, just connect it.

Or if you live in the old world, (which it sounds like you do) just buy
a dock for your Mac. How novel!

http://www.bookendzdocks.com/

 

Like I said, memory could be faulty, but I believe the article
was from a University in New York or Pennsylvania, that they
put one hundred identical machines on the net with "out of the box"
settings.

 

I can't see it on any machine, because I don't want to.

--
Wes Groleau

Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which
the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.
-- unknown

 

Refuse to cooperate with that asinine "Registry" scheme.
The same thing _can_ happen in Mac OS, too. It usually doesn't,
but I have seen "Can't find application" when it has only
been moved.

But I thought he was talking about the ability to double-click
a program that isn't in its "correct" location. Which doesn't
work if a programmer has written the entire literal path of
the "correct" location into the code.

I have run across Mac programs that don't work if they are
not located in /Applications (one version of MS Office for
example, but it's fixed now).

One version of address book refused to work unless ALL of the
following conditions were true:
- the database has the path and name address book wants
- it is writeable by you (even if you only use it for read)
- it is a file, NOT an alias or symlink

 

Strong enough that Apple thought they could win a lawsuit
against the copycats.

--
Wes Groleau

Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which
the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.
-- unknown

 

As far as I'm aware, there's no other mechanism by which you can
instruct Windows to launch your application when a file is
double-clicked, though.

[snip]

 

It's funny about the keyboard. My new MacBook Pro
is now my main system for email, web browsing and
newsgroup reading. I like OS X a lot but if I had
known about the keyboard differences I might have
thought twice about buying one.

Steve

 

That's a workaround, not an actual button.

Did you actually READ the links you sent? Another
workaround, using a TWO key combination. I don't
want to use two hands to do some of this stuff.
You response is the typical "Apple has provided us
this way to do something and no other way is needed".

Steve

 

Oh, good thing you turned it off then.

 

Thanks, nice response.

I would think programmers could simplify registry
entries. For example, a large app might reference
the full path to itself and DLLs 50-100 times in
the registry (easy to do in all those CLSID type
of keys). It would be nice if the path (folder)
were in a SINGLE entry, and all other references
referred to that one entry, so you could change
one key when an app moved. Sort of like
%SystemRoot% was supposed to work for wherever the
root of Windows was installed.

Steve

 

In my consulting business, my experience is that all of my
clients Windows systems (NT 4.0, W2K, and XP) were infested.
These included the full gamut of web servers, back-office systems,
desktops, and personal machines, in a variety of settings.
Some were supposedly under professional systems management.

Personally, my own Windows NT/2K machines never had any viruses.

 

YMMV, but also having made the switch, I don't think the keyboard
differences were all that great and mainly annoyances until I got over
old habits. Habitual not functional. Actually the main problem I am
still having with OSX is remembering all the extra really nifty
shortcuts that are available.

 

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here is every OSX shortcut:

http://rixstep.com/2/20040510,00.shtml

and every Windows shortcut:
(notice windows only has about 1/3rd as many, what a joke!)

http://rixstep.com/1/20050421,00.shtml

 

Thanks. The main problem I am having is that there are TOO many for my
feeble mind to grab hold of...(g)

 

untrue you know it.

if apple was to reintroduce a docking system, it would be an entirely
new machine AND a dock, so yes if a new machine was to appear mac users
would be rightfully excited. but apple created excellent docks years ago
but with the change in people's workstyles today AND wireless, they are
no longer needed. http://www.macgalerie.de/content/pics/dock_l.jpg

 

yeah, i can relate! i use about 10-15 of them, but then run out of brain
ram

 

For either kind of machine. I traded in my W98 laptop for a new Apple
MacBook in March. I just disconnected the keyboard, USB mouse and
Samsung 17 inch monitor, slid out the old laptop, slid in the new,
plugged things back in, messed around for 5 minutes while I got updated
drivers for the kb and mouse (d/t being an Intel Mac) and was good to go
using the new one EXACTLY as I did the old one with nary a docking
station in sight..