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"kev242@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Anyone see Selleck on Boston Legal this week? He was good (as always).
He's been on and off the show for a little while as Candice Bergen's
"love interest". I've never actually seen a full episode though because
it plays in a timeslot here that's too late for me to bother staying up
for and I don't like the ditzy characters who are the companies
big-cheeses ... they're far too much like real management types. :-)
> BTW if Anybody is still out there from New Zealand. After all our
> arguing about Apples I ended up getting a 20" Intel iMac. I have to
> concede you were right it is definetly not a PC, even tho it shares
> many parts with one and can Windows. BTW this is the best computer
> ever IMO.
Told ya so!! ;-)
Although the price has dropped a little, the only REAL stumbling block
for Macs is still the price (and games). Apple charges a premium to
have their logo - sometimes to their detriment (eg. the Newton PDA and
the G4 Cube). :-( But usually you do "get what you pay for" - it
simply works!
They're also suffering from a problem of including less and less in the
price. iMacs and iBooks used to come with the AppleWorks "office
software" for free, but they no longer do. You do get all sorts of free
software for image manipulation, video creation, website building,
etc., but no longer any word processor or spreadsheet - you have to pay
more for that. Manuals too have become virtually non-existant and
FireWire cables no longer come with iPods.
I can't say I'm a great fan of Mac OS X. It's growing on me (like a
fungus), but I still prefer the ease, cleaness and consistencty of Mac
OS 9. I'm still trying to make up my mind which Mac to upgrade to, but
upgrading from this old beige G3 is still probably a little time off
yet.
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