[Rhodes22-list] Another Computer Question

[Bradley, David]

Slim, if you go to apple.com, you'll see some pretty inexpensive Apple
laptops.   Was just looking at iPods with my daughter and was pleasantly
surprised at some of the laptop and Mac prices.

I think Airport is just Apple's brand of wireless router for the home --
you can get the same thing at Best Buy or Circuit City.

As a former marketing guy for the IBM pc business, I'm a big Apple fan.
But I think Apple got the GUI design from Xerox PARC, while Steve Jobs
was still in India smoking dope.  Not that there's anything wrong with
that.

Dave


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Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 11:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Another Computer Question

Bill,

Dissin' the Mac, eh?  Listen mister, you wouldn't know what a "window"
was
if it weren't for Steve Jobs.  The architecture of the circuitry is
superior, period.  As for the market, great!  That's why we don't even
run
any anti-virus software.  Shhhhhhh...don't tell anyone!

But seriously, I'm not opposed to picking up a "junker" pc to do only
what
it needs to do--that is, internet connection, e-mail, the usual--and
leave
the heavy lifting to the Mac.  In my case that's iTunes and the iPod.
That
would be God the Father and God the Son!

Slim

On 9/10/05 9:11 PM, "Bill Effros" <bill at effros.com> wrote:

> Slim,
> 
> I know Brad knows about this because he's all over all the time.
> 
> I got a laptop to download pictures into when I'm traveling.  If that
> was all it did, it would have been worth it to me.  I have been amazed
> at how much I have used it, and basically I can't travel almost
anywhere
> without it any more.
> 
> It now lives on the boat during the summer when I'm not using it for
> something else.  Next summer I plan to set up wireless instruments,
and
> a computer controlled auto pilot.  The smallest computer is 1000 times
> more powerful than the biggest hand held GPS, and costs a fraction of
> the dedicated instrument systems.
> 
> I got a PC because 20 PCs are sold for each Apple.  That means that
most
> of the significant new programs are now available first for the PC,
and
> later, if at all, for the Apple.  The Apple people never find out what
> they can't get, and the PC people no longer have the time to try to
> explain it to them.
> 
> For you that would mean learning a whole bunch of new small words.
> 
> Mark has been happy with the Verizon cell phone carrier wireless
> Internet System.  They just dropped their price by 25% in my area, and
I
> may pick it up, and drop some of the other services I have.
> 
> I really like being able to get on the net wherever I am without
having
> to plug into anything I didn't bring with me.  I find I use it all the
> time, even though it's slower than other things I can go out and buy.
> 
> I'm sure you'll hear more from others.
> 
> Bill Effros
> 
> Slim wrote:
> 
>> I have a question too.  (Slim raising his hand.)
>> 
>> I expect to be traveling more in the near future and I figger I
oughtta get
>> me one of them there whachacall laptops.  First of all, I'm strictly
a Mac
>> guy.  But I don't know anything about Wi Fi or whatever it's called.
Or Air
>> Port.  Or is it easier to just plug in somewhere.
>> 
>> Can somebody explain this to me using small words?  What are my
>> options/limitations, costs, etc.?
>> 
>> Slim
>> 
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