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• PC Pundits Incapable of Acknowledging Reality
  2005-03-26 13:08:17  sammy90483 [Reply | View]
  
  
  Correction on the quote: Mediocrity begets Idiocrity from The Crucible of Democracy - Sir Winston Churchill.
  
  You have a free program that authors DVDs like iDVD? With animated backgrounds and button creation and chapters? I didn't realize Movie Maker and iMovie were even considered in the same league. Movie Maker is not nearly as elegant or intuitive. It lacks many transitions and fine editing tools that ship with Apple's free iMovie tool.
  
  Another price factor not often considered is energy consumption. You mentioned pricing out computers for an educational institution. eMacs, a common education Macintosh consume less electricity than a similarly configured PC as does a Mac Mini with a monitor. Add the energy costs up over a year and you immediately see savings.
  
  We've lived in a Microsoft/IBM world for 20+ years now and indeed we have survived and even thrived. But I believe if the masses would use Macintosh technology things would be even better.
  
  We'd have a work force focused on creation more than support. Apple employs only 4 in-house help desk staff for their entire worldwide operations. I question whether that is the case at Microsoft or the Linux-Land that is emerging. Linux users hoot and holler, like Mac users, in praise of their operating system. But in the ~13 years that the Linux community has been around, the community has not been able to form a cohesive set of standards to emerge as a contender in the desktop arena for the masses. Sure this is slowly happening but here we have today a modern operating system from Apple with technical support. Until Novell or Red Hat can hammer out some basic UI guidelines Linux will continue to be a server-side curiosity or an operating system for techies-only.
  
  The intent of the Macintosh is to allow people to be creative in whatever field they work in. Certainly it has its foibles but security is not one of them that most end-users even need to worry about. While you're busy compiling RPMs others would like to just get to work with great software. I've not mentioned the thousands of niceties and nuances of the Mac interface that make it enjoyable and more efficient to use. I could argue the point 'til the cows come home but there's a lot to be said about this highly desirable and oft overlooked platform.