Re: I'm sure glad I didn't buy a Mac Mini!


"C Lund" <clund@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:clund-13F0EB.10442612032008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <EuKdnZZ4y7CxzUranZ2dnUVZ_tCrnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Hasta La Vista" <noemail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"C Lund" <clund@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >> > Yep. Reason? OSX.
>> >> How is that a reason to pay so much more for a computer?
>> > Because you want to *use* your computer.
>> How is it you're exchanging messages with me if OSX is required to >> *use*
>> a computer?
> Because you're happy with "usually works, sorta".

No I'm not.

An example of "usually works, sorta" is when I send an email to
somebody using Outlook. If that email contains european characters,
such as æ, ø, or å, there's a pretty good chance that Outlook will
replace them with chinese characters. This is because of MS's crappy
implementation of UTF-8. I think this might also be a problem with
Word.

It might be an example if it actually were true. I have no trouble seeing your æ, ø or å as they should be, and I can easily type them back to you.

Thanks for trying to come up with some reason Mac OS X is better, even though it wasn't true, and it doesn't effect me anyway, it was better than the "because I like it" that I got from another poster.

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