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The Macworld Podcast hits the big 5-0, with another look at the new Mac Pro and a back-to-school extravaganza. more
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Macworld Podcast: Mac Pros and more
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Posted 22 August 2006 - 06:47 PM
Cyrus, thanks for 50 great shows and for being our first Macworld Podcast host. Best of luck to you in your future endeavors!!
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Posted 23 August 2006 - 08:33 AM
To commemorate your leaving MacWorld you played an old Apple recording telling of the new as you will be doing new.
P purchased my first Mac 128 then upgraded to a 512 not because of the new that was described in the recording, but to upgrade from my HeathKit H-89A to what I thought would be the longest lasting of the non-Intel choices. I thought of the mouse & the graphics interface as something that only a sissy would want to use. But afternearly 30 years of non-Intel computing & over 22 of those with a Mac, I have come to decide that using icons & a mouse is not really sissy stuff. But now I have to decide if I want to move on I have to just like you change. For you that means a new location. For me it means having to use the Intel processors that I have been very reluctant to use.
Unlike many people on these Mac related web sites, I did not begin with an Apple computer. I began with a Heath-Kit. I always saw the Apple as being too limited of a platform. Also I never have like Apple as a company. I still feel the same about Apple, I don't like the company, but as shown by my 22 years of using a Mac I like the many of the products that they make. Unlike many I see Steve Jobs as a used car salesman. A good one at selling, but still a used car saleman. I do appreciate many of the things he hashelped Apple to do. One that I did not like was the cancelling of the Clones. Apple was even slow then in the higher end market. PowerComputing, UMax & others was doing a better job at that level. Apple, if they wanted to stay a hardware selling company probably had to cancel the Clones as they did because they couldn't compete when the CloneMakers were using Apple designs, how could they ever have kept up as the CloneMakers were ready to release their own designs. Motorola was really never the same level in their Mac development after Apple pulled the plug on the rising Motorola Clone.
Just as you have decided to move on to a new job, I will have to decide when I have to move on to an Intel powered Mac. I use Excel as 90 % of my computer work. I'll have to see how the lack of VB Macros & other deletions change what I can do with my Mac. I can use the old as it can handle what I do now & what I will be doing businesswise for the next 5-10 years. With the Power out of the Mac Pro Towers, I haven't been convinced that a Powerless Mac, even if the name Pro is added to the name, will be able to do.
Still Intelless for nearly 30 years. I hope to hear good things from you, as I have enjoyed your podcasts.
Bill the TaxMan
P purchased my first Mac 128 then upgraded to a 512 not because of the new that was described in the recording, but to upgrade from my HeathKit H-89A to what I thought would be the longest lasting of the non-Intel choices. I thought of the mouse & the graphics interface as something that only a sissy would want to use. But afternearly 30 years of non-Intel computing & over 22 of those with a Mac, I have come to decide that using icons & a mouse is not really sissy stuff. But now I have to decide if I want to move on I have to just like you change. For you that means a new location. For me it means having to use the Intel processors that I have been very reluctant to use.
Unlike many people on these Mac related web sites, I did not begin with an Apple computer. I began with a Heath-Kit. I always saw the Apple as being too limited of a platform. Also I never have like Apple as a company. I still feel the same about Apple, I don't like the company, but as shown by my 22 years of using a Mac I like the many of the products that they make. Unlike many I see Steve Jobs as a used car salesman. A good one at selling, but still a used car saleman. I do appreciate many of the things he hashelped Apple to do. One that I did not like was the cancelling of the Clones. Apple was even slow then in the higher end market. PowerComputing, UMax & others was doing a better job at that level. Apple, if they wanted to stay a hardware selling company probably had to cancel the Clones as they did because they couldn't compete when the CloneMakers were using Apple designs, how could they ever have kept up as the CloneMakers were ready to release their own designs. Motorola was really never the same level in their Mac development after Apple pulled the plug on the rising Motorola Clone.
Just as you have decided to move on to a new job, I will have to decide when I have to move on to an Intel powered Mac. I use Excel as 90 % of my computer work. I'll have to see how the lack of VB Macros & other deletions change what I can do with my Mac. I can use the old as it can handle what I do now & what I will be doing businesswise for the next 5-10 years. With the Power out of the Mac Pro Towers, I haven't been convinced that a Powerless Mac, even if the name Pro is added to the name, will be able to do.
Still Intelless for nearly 30 years. I hope to hear good things from you, as I have enjoyed your podcasts.
Bill the TaxMan
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