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the chicago apple mac store (fairly new) offers free internet service on all of their laptops on display. You also sample the ownder of the iPOD. I'm heare for the free internet of course, with friends anna and ritchie. I dunno why I'm posting this. Are any of you even interested?
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I love the mac store.

I used to love my macs.

While you're there, ask them why they screwed up the Mac and turned it into something totally different with OSX.

Tell them I'd like to kick Steve Jobs in the butt.

I have to invest in upgrades to all my software now. It's going to cost me a fortune.

Find out Jobs' address, too. I want to send him a Thanks a Helluva Lot note in the mail.

He should help pay for all my new software.

I have to upgrade Quark XPress, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop and more.

It's going to cost me thousands of dollars.

Not only that, once I go onto OSX, I won't be able to use Norton Utilities and I'll have to figure out where the hell everything is.

They moved it all. Nothing works like used to.

15 years of learning the operating system so I can troubleshoot it myself when something screws up and now I have to start all over.

I'm so pissed, I might break down and buy a PC.

Why did they DO this to us dedicated Mac users?

Ask them for me, ok?

give me my lil della baby and i'll be allright.....and just when i was thinking bout gettin a mac D ........

D, while I didn't actually get a chane to ask why the were asses and forced yu into upgrade hell without your consent, I did cause a little trouble by accidentally clicking on some form of instant spam and making one of their laptops crash. Good enough. Wire, dells pretty much rock. My new laptop will be of this brand. Mac has too many retrictions on what programs you can and cannot work, plus after all these years working w/windows and PC, how the hell could I adapt to the complex world of Mac? (Although they do have the tech for some totally kick ass editing software. Yay home movies!!!)
--k

Actually, the Mac interface is what Windows based it's interface on when Windows was developed - Used to be PCs ran DOS before they created Windows to emulate the Mac.

But PC has never been as simple as Mac. The Mac operating system has always been visually easier to navigate.

The new operating system, OSX, for Mac is closer to Windows, meaning more difficult for me to navigate since I'm not used to it. I'll eventually get used to it, I'm sure. I'll have to.

As a graphic designer, I really have to use Mac. It's standard in the industry. Printshops, for the most part, really hate PC files. There are many multi-platform printshops, sure, but there are some who ONLY use Macs.

Which machine is better for you depends a great deal on what you want to do. If you want to handle graphics and multi-media files, audio recording, video editing, etc., I strongly suggest Mac as being a better choice than PC-Windows (even though I hate the new operating system.) Apple's share of the industry for graphics and multi-media users has always been higher, because they focus on developing their operating system to better handle this type of work, plus they work with software developers who focus on multi-media applications.

My problem is that I closed my business 5 years ago and therefore quit buying upgrades to my software. I've already upgraded to OSX on my work computer which is owned by my employer. I'm going to buy a new Mac soon.... probably the new mini-mac since it's inexpensive, comperable to the cost of a PC, something like $500. But now BOTH of us (my employer and me) have to upgrade all of our graphics applications.

This is really all my fault. I should have kept up with the upgrades a little at a time, rather than having it hit with one fell swoop.

The story is, no matter how great the old Mac operating systems were (I'm on 9.1 on this computer and love it!), apparently they found some flaws which occured through the generations of development. So, they decided to start all over and build a new system. System OSX is a Unix-based system. It is designed to run multiple applications seamlessly without crashing. Those who I know who are using it (long time Mac users) are becoming increasingly pleased with it, though it took a little while to get used to.

But I still would like to kick Steve Jobs in the butt.

Sorry to hear you crashed the laptop, izy ...... I hope you enjoyed their seminar... It was an internet course, you say? What did they teach you?

Did you stay the "course" then???? Computers are just a machine regardless of what ever name goes on them!!!! Iko Iko!!!!
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D, did I say "course" well, not exactly. More like ap loy to get Chicagoans to come and buy their laptops. Offering the internet and some choice computer porgramming for free. A sotr of "hands-on sample of the merchandise". Sort of like how my mom takes the caps off scented lotions to smell them before she buys. And apparently it's been working, b/c everywhere I go around campus, I see those damned Macs. (A coupla dells too) and then there are those Gateway losers like me who tote around laptops from 1998 and call ourselves chic. Ohh la la! So you've caused yourself to pay an extreme amount of money by ignoring the upgrading attempts pursued by Mac. this should be the title of a slef-help pamphlet (sp?). I am taking a computer course however, I take it at my friend Anna's apartment... she's teaching me HTML for the price of full access to all of my Johnny Depp films. LOL! Dave, while computers are only a machine, they are a great and wonderful one!! I am totally freakin thrilled about my new laptop, moreso than natural. Mwhahahahahahaha.... ahahahahahaha... haha!!

--k

p.s thanks for the history lesson, D, I never knew they were so closely related. I'm just baffled by the whole "to ctrl, alt, delete, or not to ctrl, alt, delete) thing.

Actually the computer is an invention that man created and sometimes we think it's that perfect. When instead it is can only go so far yet not far enough. That's because the companies who make them make so we have to bow down to them because they make more of a "way" rather then a really good product.
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actually, while I sort of agree with you dave, I still think computers have done a lot for the current generation. I mean, just think, were it not for computers, I would never have gotten to know You, Or Doreen or any of the great people here at this site. Nor would I have had a constant place to show case my rants, raves, poetic attempts and bland idiosyncrasies. I appreciate the power of computers, and yet I also recognize the lack thereof. Ironic, ain't it?

--k

There is bad and good it goes hand in hand.
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that's true. Two side to every story, beging and end of a book, etc. This could go on and on in a boring and tedious ramble, or we can just concede that this is all unforgivably true.

--k

It's apart of life!!!!
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how true, my friend!! how true!