Mac Mini "review" at divisiontwo.com :-)

In article <1grd343.1uxs6wy10ybjq8N%deaf_null@hotmail.com>, deaf_null@hotmail.com (Gerhard Torges, geb. H�lscher) wrote: > Just for the fun: > <http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/MacMini2.html> And note that he's an MCSE, or at least claims to be one... If this is the educational level of MCSE's, then no wonder the Mac can't get a really good foothold in the business world. Greg B. -- Actual e-mail address is gbuchner and I'm located at mn.rr.com

Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Wed, 02 Feb 2005 09:34:15 -0600, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do comp.sys.mac.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Greg Buchner <null@invalid.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el: >In article <1grd343.1uxs6wy10ybjq8N%deaf_null@hotmail.com>, > deaf_null@hotmail.com (Gerhard Torges, geb. H�lscher) wrote: > >> Just for the fun: >> <http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/MacMini2.html> > >And note that he's an MCSE, or at least claims to be one... > >If this is the educational level of MCSE's, then no wonder the Mac can't >get a really good foothold in the business world. I think you need to read it again, as you obviously missed the point. deKay -- + Lofi Gaming - www.lofi-gaming.org.uk [Gamertag: deKay 01] |- Gaming Diary - www.lofi-gaming.org.uk/diary/ |- My computer runs at 3.5MHz and I'm proud of that |- Hurry up and go touch it.

Greg Buchner <null@invalid.com> writes: >If this is the educational level of MCSE's, then no wonder the Mac can't >get a really good foothold in the business world. I think that you missed the satire. ? -- Chris,

In article <but101tdnc07tiolqe4f5lqcnlf5s1nbht@4ax.com>, deKay <andyk@lofi-gaming.org.uk> wrote: > Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Wed, 02 Feb > 2005 09:34:15 -0600, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do comp.sys.mac.misc, > yawatina tan reek esk Greg Buchner <null@invalid.com> fornis do marikano es > bono tan el: > > >In article <1grd343.1uxs6wy10ybjq8N%deaf_null@hotmail.com>, > > deaf_null@hotmail.com (Gerhard Torges, geb. H�lscher) wrote: > > > >> Just for the fun: > >> <http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/MacMini2.html> > > > >And note that he's an MCSE, or at least claims to be one... > > > >If this is the educational level of MCSE's, then no wonder the Mac can't > >get a really good foothold in the business world. > > I think you need to read it again, as you obviously missed the point. Well, reading it again, I still don't see that I missed anything. I've seen lots of similar misinformed anti-Mac articles. I know people who believe in things like that article. If it's satire...I don't see it. Maybe someone could explain it? Greg B. -- Actual e-mail address is gbuchner and I'm located at mn.rr.com

Greg Buchner <null@invalid.com> writes: >If it's satire...I don't see it. Maybe someone could explain it? Easy: "My Office 2003 CD would not install, despite claims I had heard from Mac fanboys that OS X is compatible with Office." "When I consider that a good deal of my time is spent running applications like Disk Defragmenter, Scandisk, Norton AV, Windows Update and Ad-Aware--none of which are available for the Mac platform--it doesn't make sense for me to "switch" to a Mac at this time." I think it's satirical *because* it sounds so ill-informed. ______________________________________________________________________________ Dr Chris McDonald E: chris@csse.uwa.edu.au Computer Science & Software Engineering W: http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~chris The University of Western Australia, M002 T: +618 6488 2533 Crawley, Western Australia, 6009 F: +618 6488 1089

In article <null-75013F.15204602022005@apollo-ge0.rdc-kc.rr.com>, Greg Buchner <null@invalid.com> wrote: > > >> <http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/MacMini2.html> > If it's satire...I don't see it. Maybe someone could explain it? You are kidding, right? The article is just *DRIPPING* with satire. The main butt of most of the jokes is that the fellow explains what he spends most of the time doing on his Windows box and most of the software that he has on it... and it is pretty much all activities and software to work around Windows-related problems instead of actually using the system to get anything useful done. And don't tell me that you didn't notice his comments about all the applications that get installed on his Windows box without his even having to do anything at all? Or maybe you failed to notice that the list of "applications" cited were all malware of some kind or other. And then there are little jabs like his complaints that Apple's mail application is hard to find because it is obscurely named mail instead of something obvious like outlook express. And on and on.... I found it hilarious. -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: my first.last at org.domain | experience comes from bad judgment. org: nasa, domain: gov | -- Mark Twain

In article <ctrhov$n1c$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au>, Chris McDonald <chris@csse.uwa.edu.au> wrote: > Greg Buchner <null@invalid.com> writes: > > >If it's satire...I don't see it. Maybe someone could explain it? OK, so it's satire and I missed it, but... > Easy: > > "My Office 2003 CD would not install, despite claims I had heard from > Mac fanboys that OS X is compatible with Office." ....I see Windows people all the time wondering why they can't install their Windows programs on a Mac. This a couple of times has been people who do Windows for a living. > "When I consider that a good deal of my time is spent running > applications like Disk Defragmenter, Scandisk, Norton AV, Windows Update > and Ad-Aware--none of which are available for the Mac platform--it > doesn't make sense for me to "switch" to a Mac at this time." This one slipped by me as a friend spent the weekend trying to restore his registry, get Disk Defrag and Scandisk to run, getting Norton AV to let him install stuff so he could get Windows updated and then tracking down his anti-spyware apps to make certain they were running. I guess I expect that out of Windows as that's mostly what I hear from my Windows using friends. > I think it's satirical *because* it sounds so ill-informed. I apparently have some ill-informed friends... And...(combined for convenience) In article <nospam-1466E1.13482902022005@news.supernews.com>, Richard E Maine <nospam@see.signature> wrote: > And then there are little jabs like his complaints that Apple's mail > application is hard to find because it is obscurely named mail instead > of something obvious like outlook express. Other stuff covered above, but I have had a couple of switchers ask where Outlook Express was...and didn't understand that you could do e-mail without either Outlook or a web interface. And I also apparently need to get out more... Greg B. -- Actual e-mail address is gbuchner and I'm located at mn.rr.com

Greg Buchner wrote: > If it's satire...I don't see it. Maybe someone could explain it? I liked this line a lot: "[...]during normal operation the unit makes no sound whatsoever. This could make it very difficult for a novice user to know whether or not the computer is on."