Stuart Ablett
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For me the choice is simple, change.
I no longer wish to support Bill Gates and his company, they have gotten a lot of my money, and I've had a lot of fun on the computers and I've done a ton of work on them, but, I've also had a TON of problems with them.
For the business applications, we are stuck with Windoze, that is not going to change, these are one off applications, or what do they call them, propriety applications? Our tax system here is VERY convoluted when it comes to the sale of liquor and tobacco, so we have to buy a system, ours is from the Asahi Beer company. We paid about $500 a month for 5 years, at the end of that lease, we get to keep the machine and the software etc, but no tech support and no hardware replacement. That system is now getting antiquated and we had to replace the laptop computer once already. For $30000 I'm not happy with what we got, but, we are stuck where we are. The competition's system is not as good and is more expensive. I know, nothing to do with Mac/Windoze, but I'm just showing my frustration,
For our other use, at the L shop and home, the Mac makes way more sense, we want a computer for the internet, e-mail, pictures and video, the Mac is better for this, IMHO, add to that the lack of virus infections etc, and to me it is a winner.
The only thing I see that I would want to run on my Mac machine from Windoze is MS Word, as my wife uses it for some of the paper work she does for the local school's reunion club thing.
I do like the free and friendly exchange of info here, without any name calling, good work people!
I no longer wish to support Bill Gates and his company, they have gotten a lot of my money, and I've had a lot of fun on the computers and I've done a ton of work on them, but, I've also had a TON of problems with them.
For the business applications, we are stuck with Windoze, that is not going to change, these are one off applications, or what do they call them, propriety applications? Our tax system here is VERY convoluted when it comes to the sale of liquor and tobacco, so we have to buy a system, ours is from the Asahi Beer company. We paid about $500 a month for 5 years, at the end of that lease, we get to keep the machine and the software etc, but no tech support and no hardware replacement. That system is now getting antiquated and we had to replace the laptop computer once already. For $30000 I'm not happy with what we got, but, we are stuck where we are. The competition's system is not as good and is more expensive. I know, nothing to do with Mac/Windoze, but I'm just showing my frustration,
For our other use, at the L shop and home, the Mac makes way more sense, we want a computer for the internet, e-mail, pictures and video, the Mac is better for this, IMHO, add to that the lack of virus infections etc, and to me it is a winner.
The only thing I see that I would want to run on my Mac machine from Windoze is MS Word, as my wife uses it for some of the paper work she does for the local school's reunion club thing.
I do like the free and friendly exchange of info here, without any name calling, good work people!