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| Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2012 02:01 |
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jk
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Ed Hutchinson wrote:Hi There Well done Ed. I am sure you will like and enjoy it. Let us know how you are getting on.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2012 02:24 |
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Robert
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Great news Ed, look forward to hearing of your adventures with it. Have fun.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2012 17:09 |
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blackfox
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i really do love the latest FREE upgrade in aperture ,if you have a lot of processing to plough through the little magic wand seems to get it right 95% of the time ,just needing a few final touches in elements .more than adequate for what i do ,(not picked the camera up for 3 weeks ) and the grass keeps growing but its to wet to cut ,yep get a mac you won't regret it
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15th, 2012 07:46 |
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rmoser
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Let me tell you a Mac vs PC story. I work for a very large manufacturer of PCs, so I'll just leave the name out of the story :). That said, my personal laptop is a Macbook Pro and I process my photos on a Mac Pro. A month or so ago, I'm sitting in my easy chair working on something on my MBP when up pops a message that there are updates. Well, I don't give it a thought (not like I would on a PC) and tell it to go ahead and apply them. It does and unfortunately, after it tries a reboot, it fails, complaining about the ACPI driver. Can't get it to boot. Bummer (an I have to say, this is completely unexpected and unusual). So I hold down the Option key and boot the machine to the recovery partition, put in my thumb drive with Lion on it and tell it to go ahead and install. I then went to bed, figuring in the morning I would be pulling backups out of Time Machine. When I get up, the machine is done (no idea how long it took but couldn't have been all that long, I usually only sleep maybe 6 hours). But not only is the OS ok, but all my data and applications are still in place; not a single thing lost! Has worked perfectly ever since. Steve Jobs used to say about the Macs "it just works". And I really appreciate that, since I want to use a computer, not deal with fixing the operating system all the time (I'm a project manager and I can tell you I get quite enough of that in my work day). But what I've found with this little experience is that even when it doesn't work, it just works. And that's even more impressive. So now to the PC part of my story. Yesterday we decide to put a faster network card in my wife's PC (she hasn't made the Mac migration yet but I'll say that's pretty soon now). We put in the NIC and "Oh, sorry, you'll have to install SP3 before we can install the drivers". Well, that sucks, but I've got SP3 on my build server in the house, so no problem. Low and behold, after the update, guess what? The machine doesn't boot because of a corrupted ACPI driver (among a long list of others, I might add). Now I can probably fix this, but I know it will take me hours and hours and hours and I just don't feel like dealing with a substandard command line (don't get me wrong, I spend plenty of time at the command line on my Macs, but that's UNIX, not DOS trash). The recovery partition isn't much help since it wants to just restore the whole OS, thereby losing all her data that hasn't had a backup this week. Well, given I work for a PC manufacturer, I happen to have some PCs laying around unused and my wife's machine is overdue for an upgrade anyway. So grabbed one of the better PCs (i7 quad core 2.8GHz) and slap a new copy of Windows 7 (yuck) on it. Yank the disk out of her old machine and cable it up to a USB converter and drag over all her files, install Office and then clean up any oddities. So she's back in business. And it only took me maybe 6 hours total. As contrasted to the 5 minutes it took me to do a recovery from the same type of error on my MBP. Hmmmm. In any case, that's the last PC my wife gets. Her next machine will be a Mac. I really don't have time or interest in nursemaiding Windows any more. It's just not fun. Rob
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15th, 2012 17:46 |
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jk
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 I agree Rob. I worked with a PDP11 then a Apple IIe then an IBM PC then a BBC B then back to IBM PCs until 1993 when I used an IBM RISc machine and also DEC unix boxes, all the time working with IBM and Microsoft testing versions of OS/2 and DOS fhen Windows NT, WIndows 2000, then in 2003 i became a Microsft Partner until 2007 when I closed my consultancy and retired. In 2007 I decided with some trepidation to buy a Macbook Pro 15" which still works flawlessly with OSX 10.6.8 but will soon be Mountain Lioned. The move to Mac was easier as i was Linux familiar but in truth OSX is better as it is unix with a beautiful skin. Now there is no way that I would return to Windows except to run a special program which I do occasionally under a VM on my Mac. Once you have experience of the best why would anyone knowingly settle for less! The expansion of Apple into iPad and iPhone will make peopl less reticent to change from Windows so in the future beware of a dying OS called Windows. Bill Gates is smart to get out at the top.... The decline will come and it is no down to him. 
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15th, 2012 18:15 |
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rmoser
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We have pretty similar pasts ! I started out programming IBM mainframes in assembler in 1969 and moved on to UNIVAC and Fortran IV & eventually 77. Then IBM Series I and PDP-11. My first personal computer was an LSI-11. Then came the Dec VAX. By then I was moving into program management and brought some of the first large SMP UNIX machines into the company I worked for at the time. Used Macs up until the Mac II but been on Windows and UNIX & LINUX pretty much ever since (although I have got a few big IBM RS frames and still some VAXen in my sphere at the moment). Just got tired of playing the Windows game where you spend more time keeping it working than you do working with it and moved back to Mac last year. Rob
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20th, 2012 05:46 |
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Ed Hutchinson
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Hi There Thursday pm This is an update, as of now the whereabouts of my new Imac are sketchy it was involved in a train derailment in Montana somewhere it is unknown if it was on the train that crashed or just held up by it and is one of many delayed. the tracks are now cleared and things are moving again. but still no tracking info on the train it is on.fortunately no one was hurt in the accident. I feel sorry for the little lost Imac alone and lost in the wilds of Montana! I guess the only thing I can do is have another adult beverage and wait!!!!!!! Friday am Update to the update, it has been 36 hrs since the tracks cleared and no current tracking info, it seems the seller can't do anything till Monday they close early on Friday and are not there on weekends. So it looks like time for another adult beverage and wait and wait and wait. as one buzzard said to the other wait hell, KILL something NOW!!!!!! LOL  Hope your day is going better Ed  
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20th, 2012 13:28 |
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jk
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Well maybe a cowboy will herd it up and bring it to the homestead.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 21st, 2012 09:57 |
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Ed Hutchinson
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In Montana it would more likely be a sheep herder actually little Imac made it's way through the wilds of Indian country (remember Custer and the little Big Horn)and sheep country to Redmond Washington, the local hub for UPS, so I should see it Monday, barring any further snafus or foobars. Thank you for your support in these trying times LOL be well take care Ed
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23rd, 2012 23:55 |
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Ed Hutchinson
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Hi there The Imac has arrived and it is awesome, sooooooooo easy :thumbsup: anyway I promise no more silly ramblings  I must be going Ed
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