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Old 12-29-2005, 01:43 PM
Jim M2 Jim M2 is offline
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Allan,
I guess my beef is less about the technologies PCs and Macs share, and more about the thoughtfulness behind menus and commands, i.e. intuitiveness.
Here's a list of gripes.

- on a PC I can't remember how to do something I've done 100 times before. On a Mac I might think, gee I'd like to do something I've never done before and I don't even know if the Mac can do it. If it can do it, it would probably be here... hey look I just did it!

- In the old draw program for making charts (Claris?) the Mac would take my mouse/keyboard commands as fast as I could work. If you click too soon in MS Powerpoint it dosen't listen.

- In the old draw program for making charts the handles for graphical objects and text boxes were easy to grab. It always grabbed what you wanted, not everything except what you wanted. Using a Mac it was like my brain became directly connected to the screen to manipulate the figure. It was awesome.

Microshaft is the standard now and I accept it as a necessary evil.
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