Pro-Mac article ideas
Pro-Mac article ideas
- Subject: Pro-Mac article ideas
- From: Claire Lemire <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 10:02:32 -0800
Hi Dan and all,
I'm a teacher and speed of processing is not a practical concern except for
rendering in advanced art or video work not usually found in K-12 public
education. Even then, it would be an overnight process as in business.
Do PCs sell with all the software you need like the Mac does? Hardly. The
bill gets padded once the hardware is bought. Upkeep? Routers, firewalls,
reinstallation recommendations, glitches, blue screens, backups,... so much
simpler with Macs, especially OS X, than any PC I have known with any WIN
version. I went 4 years without rebuilding and finally did rebuild only for
peace of mind. What's left? More games and Quark not on a Mac? Again, not a
practical educational concern.
Support? There are plenty of options - retail stores, user groups, apple
consultants. Many user groups will help local schools for little or free as
needed. The Apple warranties are worth the security.
As MacWorld Magazine and Steve Jobs has said, comparing PCs to Apples is
like oranges to apples. The hardware and software are sufficiently divergent
that only usage is the bottom line comparison. Many games have moved off the
PC into PS2, Cube, etc., and they aren't productive actions. Of those that
are, the Mac performs better for the average user as it does not require as
much specialized knowledge for daily use of the OS and the applications.
One button mouse? Hey, we didn't need more than one button to do the work.
The information was on-screen in logical menus or in keyboard commands. For
all the rough talk about the voice command control it works fine with a
headset microphone and a little practice, find THAT on your PC for free.
The high-end user will do what they have to but the majority of the average
users learn faster and thereby produce sooner because of the understandable
interface and OS stabily without having to know DOS or UNIX when things do
go wrong. My 2 cents. ;-)
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C. Lemire, MA
NOCCC Mac SIG, Apple Ambassador
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MacFair MUG coordinator
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:59:06 -0500
Subject: Pro Mac Newspaper Article
From: Dan Schumacher <email@hidden>
To: <email@hidden>
Hey everybody,
My school's newspaper asked me to write a pro-mac article for their upcoming
issue (to be contrasted to a pro-pc article on a matching page). I figured
that I'd ask what people thought I should include. Initially, I think I am
going to talk about the overall quality that the apple products have - that
pretty much everything you need is included (iApps, synching, burning, etc)
and Apple's advantage of controlling the hardware and software. I might
also site a recent MacCentral article where Intel said something about their
high end Xeon processor 'closing the performance gap' with the PPC. (I think
that is important because that means that only their highest end processors
are coming close to approaching the generic G4).
Please let me know if anyone thinks I should focus on anything else.
Thanks.
Best regards,
Dan Schumacher
CEO, Co-founder - the William and Mary Macintosh User Group
http://www.wm.edu/so/wammug
My school newspaper's website is
http://flathat.wm.edu and the article will
be up next Friday evening in the Variety section (probably the lead story -
we don't have an interesting campus life... ;) )
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