Just ask her: will you have viruses or no viruses? Nothing makes me more angry than uninformed OS 9 users saying bad thing of OS X they know nothing about and are just afraid of
Do not compare DOS with Unix!
MS-DOS / PC-DOS was never a good thing:
Deceitful marketing and misinformed user choice have imposed 16 bits DOS on the rest of us for so many many years.
A computer running DOS has its memory segmented into 65536 bytes (64k) segments, the memory size of a 1982 Sinclair Spectrum, just imagine how hard it must be to write software for handling a simple image file if at every pixel segment boundaries have to be be checked. Even worse, total addressable RAM was limited to 640k. The consequences of this have lasted until the end of Windows 98 (how many years to go?)
Unix is a decent operating system, complex indeed but powerful, secure and not limiting in any way. I feel good about it whenever I open-up my 2000 Powerbook (I keep it ON for months)
Mac users, RAM is cheap, get some and start using OS X; if you don't like how the Finder looks press the small button at the upper right window corner an it will look and behave as OS 9's; stop using MS aplications, Open Office and Mozilla are just fine multiplatform applications -> you won't feel stupid if you're ever FORCED to work with another OS.
Another good thing: there are (still?) no viruses "for" OS X or Linux:)
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Just ask her: will you have viruses or no viruses? Nothing makes me more angry than uninformed OS 9 users saying bad thing of OS X they know nothing about and are just afraid of
Do not compare DOS with Unix! MS-DOS / PC-DOS was never a good thing: Deceitful marketing and misinformed user choice have imposed 16 bits DOS on the rest of us for so many many years. A computer running DOS has its memory segmented into 65536 bytes (64k) segments, the memory size of a 1982 Sinclair Spectrum, just imagine how hard it must be to write software for handling a simple image file if at every pixel segment boundaries have to be be checked. Even worse, total addressable RAM was limited to 640k. The consequences of this have lasted until the end of Windows 98 (how many years to go?) Unix is a decent operating system, complex indeed but powerful, secure and not limiting in any way. I feel good about it whenever I open-up my 2000 Powerbook (I keep it ON for months) Mac users, RAM is cheap, get some and start using OS X; if you don't like how the Finder looks press the small button at the upper right window corner an it will look and behave as OS 9's; stop using MS aplications, Open Office and Mozilla are just fine multiplatform applications -> you won't feel stupid if you're ever FORCED to work with another OS. Another good thing: there are (still?) no viruses "for" OS X or Linux :)