[Shacs] switching to mac - need some advice

[Joshua Garvey]

Mac's? Oh those cool looking glossy machines for people who can't handle 
Linux. :)


Kevin A. Estis wrote:
> 31337 h4x0rs made you say:
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>>> I'm sorry.. I do have to hit upon this one point of contention:
>>>   don't have to worry about "will my presentation or document look the
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> same
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>>>  on my screen as it does when I email it out to others?
>>>
>>> Doesn't that mean "if my recipient is on a Mac?"
>>> I still find it frustrating on a PC to watch a QT .mov movie.
>>> I keep my work PC up-to-date with the latest flavor of QT player, but who
>>> has time at home for that mega-meg download?
>>>       
>
> No, what I was referring to was the ability to use a product such as MS
> Word in OS X and know that whatever product I have to deliver will look
> the same when my client views the document. Yes, PDF's can do that but
> most enterprises don't have Acrobat Writer where the client can add
> comment/changes to a document and send it back to me. Regardless of how
> good StarOffice/OpenOffice, etc. are they do not have the same
> capabilities as MS Word (due to licensing restrictions, etc.) and like it
> or not MS Office is the "business application" of choice for most
> enterprises. Therefore, if you are providing a client a contractual
> deliverable (document) on a $100m contract you want to make sure the
> client sees what you intend *how* you intended it...and to do to that you
> generally have to use whatever product they use. Using a Mac allows me to
> do that for most product deliverables (except for Visio or MS Project and
> I have work-arounds for that) and still be able to do the stuff I need in
> a BSD environment.
>
> Regarding your issues with QT, etc. I tend to think of those along the
> same lines as sites that create pages which are "IE Compliant" and don't
> show up well in Firefox. Another similar issue, especially when it comes
> to movie files, is the fact that many sites use Windows WMV files which
> only work natively on a Windows system.
>
> One last tip on the Mac thing...you may want to wait until after October
> when Leopard comes out...else you'll have to pay for the upgrade.
>
> Kevin
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> This signature was created on a Mac...therefore it should look better than
> other signatures but will cost you more and doesn't really work in the
> enterprise.
> Kevin Estis
> macinhack at shsu.edu
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