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Got the extended warranty and because I teach I got the educational discount on MS Office - so I won't have to bother you for that.
Much appreciated.
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Sam, congrats on the purchase. My school (K-12) used macs fairly extensively. Most of the network infrastructure runs on Apple X Serve servers. I have seen a lot of very cool stuff that they can do.
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The first time I saw networked personal computers was at my son's kindergarten.
They were Commodore 64s.
Sam
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I've considered a mac for my next computer but to be honest with you I'm kind of scared of them because I know nothing about them.
I've only been at the keyboard of one or two and I couldn't make heads or tails out of anything on them.
But if things keep going the way they are with MS I think I can learn. I discovered the other day that MS Office XP is not compatible with Windows Vista. You have to go buy a new version of Office according to their website.
Personally, I would not be a happy camper if I paid my hard earned money for a new computer with Vista on it only to learn I can't use the software I have on the hunk of junk.
My redneck side would probably prevail and make me send a nasty-gram to Mr. Bill G.
Sam, right after my wife and I married I found a Commodore 64 in a box and hooked it up. That was the first computer I had any real dealings with. Man, I was a Pac-Man playin' fool for a while there. She had a Q-Bert game but I never liked that one.
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"They were Commodore 64s." your showing your age Sam  That was my first 'puter when I went out solo in 1986 or there about. Can a MAC run Q-Books? My wife uses a mac and so does my daughter but the wife is a teacher and the daughter a college student, if I could use one as my office PC I'd switch.
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Congratulations Sam on buying a Mac. I love my MacBook & dread having to use the PC at work every day.
I think you will be VERY happy with your purchase.
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence - Charles Bukowski
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Originally posted by Mark K.: "They were Commodore 64s."
your showing your age Sam
That was my first 'puter when I went out solo in 1986 or there about.
Can a MAC run Q-Books? My wife uses a mac and so does my daughter but the wife is a teacher and the daughter a college student, if I could use one as my office PC I'd switch. I was a Commodore kid all through the 80's with a Vic 20 up through the C64/128 and even had a couple Amigas. I can't remember ever having so much fun with my computer since then. Now it's just part of the job. My father is an accountant and he's used QuickBooks on the Mac. He uses QB a ton on the PC but absolutely hated the Mac version. I forget most of his complaints but I remember he said it was extremely different from the Windoze version - like he'd have to re-learn it completely. Of course you can always run Windows on a Mac - or vice versa, if you have a lot of time and patience to set it up.
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You know what they say...Vista runs better on a Mac than on a PC!
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they might say it, but i'll put a $1000 dollar PC running Vista against a $2000 dollar Mac running Vista and i guarantee the PC will blow the doors off the Mac, even to the untrained eye. not even close.
[Ed - if i can't talk politics, am i allowed to start computer wars? =) ]
that being said, i really was impressed the first time i saw Leopard and Vista running side by side on a Mac. very cool stuff.
"There is one thing and only one thing in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth." - Leo Tolstoy
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