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Originally Posted by willravel
I'm sorry, but it appears that I know more about Windows than you know about Mac. Apple makes Safari, their own web browser. Finder is a way of finding files and such on a computer, similar to the search function on Windoes (but for real fun, try Searchlight...you'll see a version of it in Vista later). Microsoft writes and distributes Explorer for Mac OSX. It has nothing do do with Apple, except for permissions and all that jazz.
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I think I know what's going on here...
*When you say "Explorer," do you mean "Internet Explorer," the web browser?
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Well let's put this back in the context of my original response to the question of MackKnife's question as to the benifit of Mac, justifying the cost. My answer was that programs shared between Windows and Mac OSX, in my experience, run better on Macs. Then you pretended like I was saying that the software is perfectly comparable, and therefore I'm insane.
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Do you mean Manic_Skafe? I don't see a "MackKnife" in this thread...
This is a fair enough statement to make. I was merely saying that this is a property of the programs being run and not the platforms they are running on...
Why do you think I'm accusing you of insanity? Is it all the question marks?
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Actually, I first blame Microsoft. It's a kneejerk reaction for those of us who have had Macs for more than 10-15 years. I also have to blame a combination of mixed and matched parts in the Gateway machine, and the lack of stability in Windows, be it 2000, Me, XP, et all. It's a combination of faults that lead to the disfunction, but those faults are not to be found in a Mac. That was the bottom line. I was supporting that by explaining that my computer, that should be an inferrior machine, is somehyow able to perform better in comparable tasks (not perfectly comparable, as DOS is drastically different than lunix, but close enough for the comparison to be apt).
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I can understand this attitude if you were using Macs for the past five years but ten to fifteen? I have a lot I can say about this but I will simply say that unprotected memory and cooperative time sharing made Mac OS 9 (and under) less stable than WindowsNT ever was. I will save further comment for a more appropriate thread...
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I also mention that the freeware that Apple bundles with the Mac comps is superior to Windows on PCs, as they are not 60 day trials. I get to keep everything from Grage Band to Safari to the aforementioned Spotlight to Dashboard. No need to go download them or to purchase them or even to put in CD keys. The plug and play aspect of Mac comps is attractive to people who don't build their own comps.
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I have said nothing about this, nor any of the (many) other claims you've made about the Mac...
*I wrote this before seeing spectre's post...