[Hidden-tech] Switching to Apple

[Don Lesser]

Excellent article. I agree that Vista is disappointing. Under the hood, it
might be more stable and more easily supported, but from a user interface
style, what used to be one or two clicks is now 4 or 5. Microsoft may well
have jumped the shark on this one.

 

As someone who bought his first IBM-PC on the day the Mac was announced and
who has taken a ration of, well, crap, from Mac fanatics and someone who has
consulted with the larger business world (PC-based) for 26 years, I am
perhaps not the most Mac-friendly guy out there. (If Steve Jobs had allowed
a second-source clone of the hardware and a connection to Novell networks,
Microsoft would still be writing BASIC and we'd all have Macs, but then, he
wouldn't be Steve Jobs if he had.) 

 

Still, a number of people I respect are moving to Macs so I've been looking
at them. We are currently working on a project involving Vista and Office
2007. One consultant is running Vista/O 07 on Parallels, the rest of us are
running the combo on PCs. We have a number of file corruption issues and
inability to get files onto CDs from the Mac/Vista environment. The
consultant is no computer or Windows novice-he knows what he is doing-but
the problems persist. Yes, this is new stuff and emulation software always
needs time to catch up.  We had similar problems last year with a consultant
who used Open Office on UNIX-saving as Word docs in Open Office is just not
the same as creating the document in Word. The subtle differences there
resulted in hours of re-formatting and editing.

 

If I didn't need 100% compatibility or to work with a team of people who are
using Windows/Office for more than mere data creation (text, spreadsheets,
etc.), I'd look at the Mac. But, based on this experience, I can't trust my
work to the Mac. 

 

Don Lesser

Pioneer Training, Inc.

14 Bobala Road

Holyoke, MA 01040

(413) 536-1030 (phone)

(413) 552-0472 (fax)

dlesser at ptraining.com

www.ptraining.com

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Steig
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:27 AM
To: Jeff Rutherford
Cc: Hidden-Tech
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Switching to Apple

 

Here's a very relevant piece on Macs from a recent switcher, writing for
MacWorld. Just published yesterday.

http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/28/fearapple/index.php 

Joseph Steig

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I was at the recent Hidden Tech event to design programming for the next
year.

 

I know that many technology topics were discussed. Though, I don't remember
anyone discussing an event re: switching to Apple from a PC. I recently made
the switch to Apple after many, many years of using PCs. I certainly have
enjoyed the switch, but I'm often looking online for Apple versions of
common PC technologies.

 

There may be other Hidden Tech members considering a switch to Apple or who
have recently switched and would be interested in an event to discuss small
business technologies available for Apple computers and other switching
issues.

 

Jeff

 

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On Mar 27, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Tish Grier wrote:





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Don't know anyone specific, but if you go over to Monster.com, all the jobs
for the Apple store

are listed there--and, of course, at the mall.  Go to the Customer Service
desk and there's a book

that has flyers in it for all the jobs in the mall.    

 

T.

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Hi, everybody!  I don't post often but I really value this list.   My friend

Wendy is interviewing for a position of  Creative Teacher (graphics, sound,

etc) at a new Apple Store that is evidently opening up at the Holyoke Mall.

Does anybody know anyone associated with this startup?  Thanks!     ..David

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