Just FYI
Tracy
Anthony
Or that was a typo on your part and you meant SP1.
I can personally vouch for enjoying using a Mac over a Windows machine, but there is a learning curve and it can be difficult for people to overcome if they've got well set habits. My wife took a good six months before she was truly happy using it. On the other hand, I was good from the outset, except the one-button mouse thingy.
Jayson Merryfield
Tracy
1. back up every file you want to keep to CDs or some other backup system
2. Go to http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download and download Ubuntu (~650 Mb). Burn the ISO file to a CD, place it in your CD drive, re-boot and follow directions. The OS is free and legal.
You'll end up with a faster running, more dependable machine with Open Office installed to replace Word. The machine I am currently on is a year 2000 generic box running at 800Mhz with 512Mb ram and a 40Gb hard drive system. It runs quite well.
[This message has been edited by mikemunsil (edited June 28, 2008).]
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Sholar, If you have an older machine and if all you need is Word, then there are several things you can do that won't cost much a but a bit of your time.1. back up every file you want to keep to CDs or some other backup system
2. Go to http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download and download Ubuntu (~650 Mb). Burn the ISO file to a CD, place it in your CD drive, re-boot and follow directions. The OS is free and legal.
You'll end up with a faster running, more dependable machine with Open Office installed to replace Word. The machine I am currently on is a year 2000 generic box running at 800Mhz with 512Mb ram and a 40Gb hard drive system. It runs quite well.
I don't want to insult the intelligence of Sholar but I think it would be wise to establish your technical competency before trying this. Even if you are familiar with installing Windows, installing a linux distro can prove challenging if you have a strange hardware config or some hardware that is off the beaten path.
I have used and installed and used Ubuntu and it is probably my favorite flavor of Linux but it is still vastly different than windows from a user perspective. It's not a bad idea, I just wanted to caution you as the above instructions make it sound like anyone can do it.
Cheers,
Anthony
my laptop keeps up dating its self waisting my time and paedhents
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As for Mac, I'm sure they're fine computers but everyone I know that purchased one ultimately regrets it because there are so many software compatibility issues. They are by nature, obviously very proprietary in design and Apple won't let anyone in. They want to completely own their customers. That indebtedness to Apple usually just keeps costing more and more money since they know there are no other solutions available to their customers. There was a real bad Mac virus floating around last week too but to listen to them you'd think they are impervious to viruses. The truth is they are so insignificant that few bother to write viruses for them, it has nothing to do with their OS or hardware being any better. But the viruses are starting to come now and some of them are quite nasty. Apple engages in such deceptive advertising I would never reward them for such a greedy marketing and business attitude. All those “I’m a Mac” ads are rubbish but they know that nobody will make a reply because there is no one company that has ownership of the PC platform. IBM threw it wide-open many years ago and that is why computers progressed so much, so fast. If IBM had been as greedy as Apple, computers would be twenty years behind where they are now.
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