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User interface? Give me a break.

I've used Macs enough to know that user interface is not a valid issue versus Windows. I use Vista on my laptop, and the user interface is fine. I have total flexibility to set the interface the way I want it, from the system-hugging but VEEY user-friendly "Aero" interface to a duplicate of the XP interface. Vista addresses every ergonomics problem that a Mac OS does.

In fact, Vista's voice recognition accuracy and ease of training is so good, it's scary (and I speak as someone who used to train paraplegics and other folks with severe disabilities in how to run their PCs with voice recognition as part of my job).

That's right - Vista comes, standard, with one of the best voice-recognition utilities I have ever seen. (This is with the standard audio circuits on a Dell Inspiron laptop with 1 Gb of memory and a Core Duo processor running at 1850 MHz.)

You don't hear about that, and I bet that if use of the voice recognition feature had been part of "the Mojave Experiment," they would have had to pry people off of the Vista machines. I'd say that was above-average human engineering.

Since Vista released SP1, the problems everyone reports have mainly gone away. I haven't had a system crash in over two months, more than my wife can say of her brand-new Mac desktop running OS X. In fact, she constantly complains of difficulties with the user interface with OS X, with ergonomic issues regarding the new Mac keyboard and mouse... not to mention that malware got onto their office's LAN and locked up access to office files for a week. These are problems she doesn't have at home with Windows.

We went away from using Macs in our home LAN - we had an iMac, which is gone, and the older Macs I hung onto are still here because I collect older computers - they're sitting right next to my CP/M computers, my Apple IIs and my TRS-80s. Macs are just too much hassle to use, and we ran into a spiraling obsolescence problem with the iMac - we'd have to upgrade OSes to run current applications, then upgrade hardware to run the new OSes, and... it made using Windows seem easy and inexpensive by comparison.

Posted by: jlafitte   Posted on: 08/07/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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