Re: The Rapture Is Here: Paul Thurrott Likes Macs

On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:51:39 -0500, ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> >I still think this a pretty silly test. As I said in the other thread,
>> >loading 18 tabs at once is not something most people do much.
>>
>> Why not? I can't imagine manually going to links via favorites - how
>> tiresome. And the wait, too - why, if you can avoid it?
>
>Yeah, sure, but you *maybe* do the 'load 18 tabs' thing once, at the
>beginning of a browsing sessions where you want to check up on your
>favorites. Sometimes you don't, because you opened the browser to search
>for something, not check up on your favorites. And anyway, after that
>initial load, you're mostly following links, one at a time.
>
>Honestly, though, even in that situation, loading 18 tabs at once is
>slightly crazy. The sane way to follow new stuff on 18 sites is with RSS
>feeds, which most of the sites in your set have.

Why is it crazy? It's a simple way to load the sites I want to read.
There's no downside to doing so (on the PC; there's a pretty intense
slowdown on the Mac), so why not?

The PC allows a new way of working. :) You should try it.
.

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