Re: will doxbox work with mac?

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

--- On Mon, 1/19/09, flash  wrote:

> From: flash 
> Subject: Re: will doxbox work with mac?
> To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, January 19, 2009, 11:01 AM
> Jordan,

> Mac's prices are not exorbitant if you calculate not
> only initial
> provisioning costs, but total running costs over the
> lifetime of the
> product.

I was referring to hardware, software, accessories -- the works.

> Things you don't need with a Mac: anti-virus
> software (yes, I
> know there is freeware for pcs, but you don't need
> _that_ either with a
> Mac), all those Norton (or other third party) tools for
> defragmentation
> and file management and disaster recovery and registry
> clean-up, and so
> on ad nauseum. Add in your time and frustration due to lost
> or corrupted
> data on a Windows pc. Add in your time and frustration
> searching for
> missing dlls on the www because some application won't
> run in Windows
> out-of-the-box. You won't have to blank the hd every
> two years and
> reinstall everything on a Mac. In a corporate environment,
> multiply all
> these cumulative and hidden costs by the number of user
> profiles
> (greater than the number of machines). The Mac's
> cheaper.
>
> 


I could grant you much of that, but I can't help being skeptical
whenever Mac users tell me there's nothing to fix, because things
don't ever go wrong with a Mac ! Probably even more so now -- with
OS/X being largely Unix under the hood -- if the typical Mac user
encounters some serious problem, they'd have to call in a Mac guru,
just as most PC users may need to summon help.


 Jordan