Re: RawShooter essentials similar app for the Mac?

Joseph Chamberlain, DDS wrote: 
On 12/31/05 1:22 PM, in article _NGdnS8zY80AayveRVn-oA@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Slack™" <"Slack"@??.org"> wrote:


Randall Ainsworth wrote:

In article <e5KdnYNafK6WsiveRVn-vg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Slackô
<"Slack\"@½³.org"> wrote:


GT, when are you going to upgrade to a PC... ya know Billy has been
waiting for you :-P

Once you go Mac, you'll never go back. 


Well, I nearly went Mac *till* I tried one; Wasn't impressed at all and
I found it considerably slower than my PC. I will give Apple an A for
styling.
_____
Slack



You've got to be kidding me !!!

I used Windows for a number of years. Used to have all sorts of problems
running everything from Windows 98SE to XP Professional.

Four years ago I went back (back because I began with computers working with
Macs and did so for a number of years) to Macs when my frustration with
Microsoft reached an unacceptable level.

After purchasing a new top of the line Dell system (actually two - a desktop
and a notebook) both running Windows XP "Pro" I connected two identical
external Firewire drives where I had work colleted along almost 5 years of
work that involved photos of surgeries, clinical data from treatments I had
performed on patients, thousands of research scientific articles I had
converted to PDF format and many others invaluable files. As soon as I
connected the one of the drives to the computer it began to reformat the
drive and I couldn't stop it until it was too late. I lost all the
information contained in that one drive which is simply irreplaceable and to
which a value simply can't be attributed.


After this happened I contacted Microsoft and was told by a few of its
technical support agents that Microsoft "DOES NOT" guarantee backward
compatibility between its operating systems. Unbelievable !!!


An automatic format? I never heard that one before and don't quite
follow what you did. You connected two external drives up to
the Dell and it formatted one of them? Maybe it was trying to make
a single partition but there's usually a message of sorts. Surely work
that valuable should have been stored in at least two other places
beside the working hard drive(s). What happened to the original?

 The backwards compatibility factor is a major reason for
Windows getting so bloated in the first place. I'm glad they backed
off of it. OS-X isn't exactly compatible with 9x either.


Just to add another comment Apple has been recently recognized as the
computer company to provide the best support to its customers.



I like my G5 i mac for the most part but the Dells alone probably outnumber
all the Macs out there and they don't write the operating system, if it was
an OS error.


I have seen numerous Windows users try the Mac and switch. I have yet to see
one single user who, after using the Mac for a few weeks, decided to go back
to Windows.


Well, they are out there. I was almost one of them but hung in there,
mostly because of the vulnerability issue. I hope they have an i pod
success with their new Intel machines.

.

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