Re: "Macs just WORK" - Indeed they don't, or not for long
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Ender100@aol.com wrote: Oh yeah, Word 5.1 was the perfect program, but they have to sell upgrades every year... 6.5 was the program from hell, & I peeled off. I kept 5.1 on a partition, but it got too tricky... my G-4 spooked the partitions... But then I discovered that the word processor in Pagemaker worked like a charm... all the functions of word 5.1 plus page layout when you wanted it. HOWEVER, because the world is full of the brain dead, Pagemaker got swamped by Quark, & when I need to send a file to a printer or resurrect an old file to reprint an early Post-Factory -- Pagemaker & its fonts are declared OBSOLETE. I have to make PDFs for the printer... but the moment I turn my back, G-4 uninstalls all my fonts, so making the *&^%$#$%^&*(+@* PDFs is hell.pssssst psssst hey bob.... I have been using Microsoft Word on the Mac for YEARS...... haven't you heard? There is a Mac version! hehehehehe Partly it's payback for keeping system 9 in a partition --what the brainiacs at Apple call "classic," but which was I'd bet never out of beta, just a ploy to get us to "upgrade" and take X. People say they like X better, I won't torture you with its shortcomings.... except to say I have $10,000 worth of peripherals that won't work on 10 & don't like the substitute hardware or programs at any price. But I've said this before. As for "stable" -- I had several months of crash-a-minute until the trouble was traced to a dying keyboard. Did I mention that no keyboards are made that do 9 any more? Apple said "try E-Bay." I got one that a kind techy explained would do both 9 & 10 except it won't open the disk drawer (did I mention planned obsolescence, the s--ts?). I have a "secret" way of opening the CD drawer.... but then the mouse died, and no mice do 9 AND 10 any more, except the NYU computer store had misfit that will (also, BTW, Microsoft)... as long as it lasts. (Maybe I should get a spare ?) Which is to say, I prefer to choose my programs, not have them shoved down my throat. That's not in their plan. Judy
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