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11-19-2010, 10:30 PM #1BF4 gamer
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First, we're talking Office, not Windows. OpenOffice is nice, but it's nowhere near MS Office.
I get annoyed at times with the auto-resize in Outlook '07, but honestly I find it more useful than bothersome. You can always set the scale to 100%, as that's how I handle the times where I need a 1:1 image (e.g. with text).
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11-19-2010, 10:49 PM #2
The MS Office is where MS makes most of their profits, so it can't be all that bad. It's true that there is a somewhat free market, but it's also true that Microsoft was a monopoly for quite some time.
Apple is actually much worse than Microsoft, the only thing they can do better than anybody else is designing a user interface.
I haven't been forced to use microsoft products in ages though, so I have rather superficial view of them. Last time somebody told me they need to spend $200 on MS Office license because they needed to be able to do mail merge, I looked up what it was and how to do it in Pages. It was a little bit harder than in MS Office, but turned out not $200 harder.
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11-20-2010, 01:16 AM #3Senior Member
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Watched this the other night. Gives insight into the history of Open Source and Free Software.
Revolution OS
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11-20-2010, 01:24 AM
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I gave up on microsoft, one of my better decisions
11-20-2010, 09:04 AM
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HNSB,
That is why I switched to various flavours of UNIX (OpenBSD, FreeBSD & Solaris) & GNU/Linux some six years ago
Have fun !
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Russ
11-21-2010, 04:03 PM
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In Windows 7, they eliminated the cool photo fix buttons, in the photo program.
In Vista for instance, they had "Fix" and Crop, Red eye, stuff like that..In Win 7, it's gone. Now, you have download Windows Live in order to fix your photos...If your cheap like me, and won't buy a Photo shop program....
P.S. I'm an old "Ms Dos" guy, I've always hated windows. FWIW....
How many of you remember "Power Menu", Formtool, Wordstar, and when monitors only had "Red or Green" colors to choose from...?
We have assumed control !
11-21-2010, 04:27 PM
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I was thinking about going to Macs but the price the cheapest mac note books are almost twice the price of most pc note books but can they be twice a good twice as fast?
I'm not a fan of windows using it has wasted weeks of my life just to keep it running.
I have looked at linux but It's not for me.
So back to windows oh well if it doesn't play ball I can always leave it and go for a shave.
Anyway I have a question for you tech guys out there who in your opinion makes note books with good quality parts?
11-21-2010, 06:27 PM
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It always comes back to the OS. :/
MS Office is -- hands down -- the best office suite out there. Outlook is arguably the best mail client, especially when you consider that the vast majority of businesses are using Exchange.
If you insert an inline image in Outlook '07, it will autosize it and there's no one-click way to disable that. For the times when you want a 1:1 image, it can be a little annoying that it takes like 3 clicks to set it properly. In my experiences, it's actually quite handy in that you can manipulate the image size right in the email and the entire email will change dynamically. This is great for people like me who are OCD about formatting.
11-21-2010, 08:20 PM
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Parts were important may be 20 years ago, these days almost all computers are made of the same parts.Originally Posted by Evin
Apple computer isn't going to be faster than a windows computer, it'll most likely be slower. Apple's implementation of the operating system sucks and has sucked from day one. If you install and run windows on the same machine along OS X you'll find out that Windows outperforms the OS X (similarly for computing power Linux outperforms Windows on the same hardware).
As I posted earlier Apple is a design company so all the extra money goes into a sexier looking computer and much more intuitive user interface.
Look at straight razors, when they're made very pretty they can sell for several times what an ugly one that shaves just as well, or sometimes even better. When people have disposable money they can pay a lot for bling.
So it depends on how much you value your time. If you don't like Linux (my parents who don't know much about computers prefer it to Windows), your only options are Windows and OS X, but the later may be a bit expensive. It does come with various rather programs already in, and the Apple's office suite is quite a bit cheaper than Microsofts, so the price difference may not be as drastic at it seems on first sight.
Keep in mind also that things change, most quickly in the world of Linux, but also Windows 7 may not be so bad as whatever you had wasted weeks with.
11-21-2010, 08:29 PM
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As a retired software engineer with considerable experience on Windows PC, I am truly amazed with all that goes on under the hood it even works. Millions of processor cycles per second, tons of context sensitive messages in the gueues, screen paints, internet sockets... not to even mention all the third party hardware that is thrown into the stew. It's not the best but it does actually work from time to time as it is now.
