Re: Mac/Apple

[Brian Hugh Warren <stationwagon at watchtan_com>]

ah the age-old discussion on mac/pc.

I highly recommend the mac. I've used both for work though, mostly due 
to the emotional leanings of our IT department have we had to use PC. I 
kinda switched our department to mac though.

Nobody mentioned the virus thing - I've never used any virus protection 
on my macs. I receive viruses (virii?) a lot (not as much lately) - 
they show up in my email - I smile at them, and wave. "Hello little 
virus. What can you do here? Nothing. See you later!"

  It's really hard to keep from feeling a bit smug when my fellows get a 
virus.

But yes, it's the Ease of use that keeps me on the Mac. Simplicity in 
doing very complex things - editing video - sharing an internet 
connection - adding printers - running a development environment 
(php/mysql)

The video thing is kinda funny - my dad was visiting my wife and i in 
Alaska - and he wanted to see some bears - well, they weren't out when 
we went to the river so i just filmed him and his wife pretending to 
point at bears. Then i went home, captured the video into imovie, 
tossed it together with some previous bear footage that i had on tape. 
And made a pretty convincing bear video - i did this in about 10 
minutes and burned it to a cd on my powerbook. Am I an accomplished 
video editor? No, i hadn't touched video editing in at least a year, 
but it was so simple. I had no drivers to install for my video camera 
or anything.

Why the bear video? Well he had a friend who had video of being charged 
by a bull elephant from his trip to Africa, and he felt inclined to 
prove his worth.

Take care,

Brian

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