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Originally Posted by Tree Machine  And Microsoft not playing nice with the Quicktime format, a really excellent video and image and music format that PC's are seemingly not warm toward.
Well, Aerial, thanks for stepping up as a Mac dude extraordinaire. It's nice that you have PCs also and can speak from both sides.
What do you use your PCs for that you can't do on a Mac? |
Quicktime is an excellent example of how Microsoft has used it's monopoly power to attempt to "knife the baby" (a famous quote from an internal email memo that was published during the anti-trust trial) with regards to Apple's Quicktime media format. The crumby Windows support of Quicktime is Microsoft's revenge for it's existence.
I can use both platforms effectively, having spent many years selling Windows based systems into Corporate America. My two Windows systems I keep around for two specific purposes.
My somewhat elderly IBM Thinkpad is a Print server for a rather complex Xerox "Workstation" laser printer, scanner, and fax terminal. This heavy duty all-in-one printer predated OSX and one of the few printers that OSX has no built in drivers for. I can get it to print under OSX with emulating HP laser printer protocols, but not all of it's features. It was easier to just download the Windows 2000 drivers and give my trusty Thinkpad something to do in it's waning years.
I just recently (last Summer) bought my Toughbook and Microsoft Streets & Trips along with a USB GPS unit to act as an in car navigation system. This was a total failure because the Microsoft program caused repeated system crashes on the Microsoft operating System. This usually happened at the worst possible time, and was so frustrating that I went out and bought a Garmin.
What a piece of crap Streets & Trips is as a real time navigation system. But I do like the hardened nature of the Toughbook, and I still plan to use it when camping or in a blind photographing wildlife.
Aerial