[Grovenet] MACs for Christmas

[Phoenixacm at aol.com]

Hi, Chuck,

The joke among Mac owners (like me) is that Windows Vista is really Windows 
Visa (as in take out your Visa to update all your applications, take out your 
Visa to update all your utilities, take out your Visa to increase your RAM, 
etc.).   :-)

Jane B-P


> MAC Computers broke the 8% market share mark for the first time in the
> final days of 2007.
> 
> "But it was the post-Christmas surge that really put the Mac on the
> market share map. "The really good news for Apple came at the end of the
> month," said Net Applications in a write-up on its Web site, which noted
> that during Dec. 30 and Dec. 31, Mac OS X-powered machines accounted for
> 8.01% of those monitored online. "This represents a phenomenal increase
> of 18% from November for the Mac."
> 
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
> articleId=9054798
> 
> I have been telling my customers for years now - if you really want a
> trouble free computer, switch to a Mac or learn a Linux OS.  My Ubuntu
> Linux machine has been trouble free for going on 3 years now.  No
> Viruses, No Spyware, no Blue Screens of Death, and without spending a
> single penny for any kind of bloated software designed to work with
> Microsoft.
> 
> While on Vacation this Christmas, my 17yr old niece got a new laptop -
> with Vista of course.  Her 2 most important priorities (teenager of
> course) was Apple iTunes and MSN Instant Messenger.  While her laptop
> was in really good condition (Acer), it was limited by only having 512M
> of RAM (Vista likes LOTS of RAM).  However it did perform fairly well. 
> The Wifi was working well, the speed wasn't too bad, everything was just
> humming along until I tried to install these 2 applications for her.  I
> could not get it to work.  Vista errors.  Go figure.
> 
> I can not count how many people I have spoken to, or stories I have
> heard, who absolutely despise Windows Vista.  So I say, good for Apple. 
> Yes, Macs cost more.  But they work.  Just like Linux.  It - just - works.
> 
> My other service call this vacation (its hard being a computer guy) was
> to another relative whom I built a computer for 3 years ago.  Not one
> single Antivirus or Spyware application I had given him had been
> updated.  Not once.  The computer was inundated with Viruses and Spyware
> - big surprise.  And I could not do anything short of trying to back
> everything up, wiping his hard drive, and starting over.  I was supposed
> to bring this PC home with me to work on, but he was so angry that he
> might lose everything, I never heard back from him.  PC's can get
> Viruses.  Macs or Linux computers cannot (yet).
> 
> Want a computer without the hassle of viruses?  Get a Mac.
> 
> chuck underwood
> woodchuck computers
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