On 12/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Spiro</b> <<a href="mailto:jasonspiro4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">jasonspiro4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2006/12/8, Simon <<a href="mailto:simon80-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">simon80-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<br>[..]</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>But c'mon, Vista's bloated, but other than that, it's not such a bad<br>OS for the average clueless end user.</blockquote><div><br>Yeah .. history repeats itself here, because we said exactly the same things about Windows 95 over ten years ago .. back then 4M of memory was a decent amount and 8M was plenty. Windows 95 was fine with 16M (a huge amount back then), slow in 8M and useless in 4M. OS/2 did a little better, but really shone in the multi-tasking department.
<br><br>Microsoft first claimed they'd make it zippy in 4M, then gave that up and said, Hey, you'll just have to upgrade your memory. Fortunately, the delays helped, because memory prices slowly fell, and pretty soon 16M and even 64M of memory (wow) was not uncommon.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Though I must say, Mac OS is<br>better. IMO, Linux, unfortunately, still has too many problems (with
<br>3-D graphics, etc.) for clueless end users. That is why I avoid<br>recommending it to such users.</blockquote><div><br>If I were going to recommend a computer for new users, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend a Mac -- I bought one for my step-son last year, and we plugged it into power and the network, turned it on, and it asked a few simple questions like "Can I use the LAN for Internet access?" and "I've found a network printer, is that the one you want to use?", and that was it. No driver conflicts, no downloads, no battling with IRQs, no screen resolution issues, no reboots -- it just *worked*.
<br><br>The PC as an appliance -- what a concept.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Alex Beamish<br>Toronto, Ontario<br>