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I installed iTunes on my inlaws' laptop to get my MIL's new iPod working. I plugged in the iPod and iTunes told me it was formatted for Mac and I needed to click 'Restore' to set it up for a PC. So I did. Then it told me the iPod needed a FW update and to click ok to get the update. So I did. Then after a while it asked me if I wanted to auto sync her songs to it. I said yes and it is now busy syncing her songs.
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That's what LOML does.
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Nothing unusual about that. What were you expecting?
Last edited by leehljp; 09-21-2009, 04:59 AM.Hank Lee
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When you run a company like a dictatorship everything runs great. But just don't expect too much variation. Just as google
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Dunno. Haven't used any Apple products before. When it said I had to do the FW update, for one thing I was expecting I would have to go download the FW and update it myself. I did set it up to automatically sync for her. Figured as she added music she wouldn't have to worry about it later. This week I will show her what a play list is.David
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I have been using Apple products for 6 years now, and I still have these 'moments of bliss' when things work not only work as you want them to, but sometimes even better - almost like it thinks for you! Btw, a tiny (nice) quirk I noticed - if you go from a Mac to Wintel, it tells you it'd wipe out and start again; but if you reverse that step (ie, once synched with a wintel, you attach it to a Mac), it takes it easy, and allows you to co-exist.
In this particular case, variation (and 'democracy') might be over-rated - by much. Wintel today is better than before, but it still is a free for all with uncertain results. Funny thing is - they have never managed their upgrades consistently : Win 98 was okay, Win ME bombed, Win2000 was better, XP was even better, Vista an embarrassment. I look forward to Win 7 being truly good. Similarly with their other software.
On the other hand, Apple has always moved onward and upward. The latest iTunes (9.0) is really neat.
I think personalities at the head speak : Jobs is ornery and a-retentive (putting it mildly), but once he is gone, dunno where they'd end up.It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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I think for one, apple has tried to focus on the customer experience. MS let the other people worry about the customer experience.
If swmbo hadn't needed windows for work, I would have upgraded her into a macbookComment
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I run XP on my 3 1/2 year old laptop. It runs faster on this Mac than XP does on my 4 year old ThinkPad that I gave to my oldest daughter recently. The only software added to it was MS Office. My youngest daughter installed XP on her newly purchased MacBook last month.
I get comments regularly that the XP on my Mac runs Excel faster than on their PC.Hank Lee
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See the section in BOLD for the reason...
Your Mac is almost certainly slower at a hardware component level than a similarly priced PC, but you're running a nice clean windows environment. Of course you can use parallels or boot camp for OSX when you don't need/want to be in windows which is something most PC users cannot do...
New Windows PCs come with tons of JUNK installed which is never needed by most users. A lot of that is due to marketing agreements with the hardware manufacturers, but there's also the anti-trust restrictions that prevent MS from limiting what can be installed (at least so say the EU courts).Comment
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If Apple would give new users a few months to see if they liked it before finalizing the deal, I think I'd give it a whirl. Unfortunately, I never used a Mac, so I'll have to stick with something I'm halfway familiar with.
EdDo you know about kickback? Ray has a good writeup here... https://www.sawdustzone.org/articles...mare-explained
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Being a Windows and a Mac user - the NUMBER ONE reason that I detested XP and previous versions of Windows: The Screen Type. It hurts my eyes to look at that ragged type - whether it is 10 minutes or 2 hours. My organization has proprietary software forms that require me to use Windows. Most of the forms take at least an hour to fill out and I do this regularly. It just hurts my eyes looking at those screen fonts. It is kinda like reading the old dot matrix print in regular mode.
No, it is not that I like "Eye Candy frivolity", but it is the blocky letters of XP and earlier that "I don't like" - because it is just hard to read. Apple has had smooth letters on screen that is more like newspaper print or true typewriter print - since I can remember. Less headaches from screen type with the Macs basic screen rendering.
That is the starting point!Hank Lee
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