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YML Posts Macworld Coverage

Posted by timothy on from the hush-draws-over-the-crowd dept.

Pronoun54 writes "Your Mac Life, an Internet based radio show about and for Apple and Macintosh users, has a ton of interviews from Macworld Creative Pro. They have been posting Quicktime movies all week. Macworld was a lot smaller this year and had very few announcements, but if you couldn't or didn't choose to go, they sum up the show for you."

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  1. mac problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.

    Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.

    1. Re:mac problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you trolling losers? I've been sitting here at my cubicle reading slashdot for about 20 minutes now and again some pathetic AC has posted another variation on the parent troll. A pathetic AC. At home, where I also read slashdot, which by all standards should be the same as slashdot at work, the same troll will still appear in about 20 minutes. If that.

      In addition, during reading the parent troll, I will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt.

      I won't bore you with the laundry list of other insults that I've thought of while reading variations on the parent troll, but it is suffice to say there have been many. I don't get how someone can claim to get satisfaction from posting the same troll over and over again, whether it be changed to read Mac Classic, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Ogg, Windows, IE, PPC, or anything else.

      Troll addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to post variations of the same boring old troll.

  2. The Truth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Windows fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a PC running Windows (a P4 2.4 GHz w/512 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Beige G3/233 MHz running MacOS 9.1, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this PC, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Internet Explorer will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Notepad is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various PCs with Windows, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Windows PC that has run faster than its Mac counterpart, despite the PC's faster clock speed. My Powerbook 100 with 4 megs of ram runs faster than this 3 GHz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Windows PC is a superior machine.

    Windows addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Windows over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.