Switchers

[Meltdown]

Most people use their computer to surf the net or do word processing. You can do that on a 486 with the same speed as on new hardware. How fast can you type? Mhz is only for rendering 3D, pro music apps or if you want to play the latest games. Most hardware of today is faster then the majority of people can work anyway. It's the whole experience what makes a platform work or not.

[fryke]

I almost thought your message meant I was wrong, but then I noticed that you only supported what I said, Meltdown.

[Meltdown]

Fryke,

Please forgive me my lousy english, i'm Dutch ;-)

[fryke]

Oh, please do the same for me, I'm Swiss :-)

[dtmdoc]

I'm not a "switcher" per se, because I use PCs at work, but I bought my quicksilver tower before it became fashionable to switch.

[Giaguara]

... and my lousy english, i'm from south of fryke

the mhz don't tell the truth even when you have the same software in different OS's. so a photoshop in a mac of xx mhz is faster than a photoshop in windoze of xx+yy mhz.

it's weird there are NO people in the switch campaings switched or enchanced from other platforms than windoze. .. even redhat is doing the switch campaign - i think i'd enjoy the idea of being in two switch campaings = "why i chose linux" and then asap after that a mac switch. being a switch from an *X would do good for them, and i'm not the only who has run from other OS's. .. Oh, sun is nice also but i never realised that a computer i was using was a sun unless i looked in the logo ...

[bambi]

Well, I'm new here, just got a new iMac last month. Am in love..... *sigh*....
My iMac is wonderful. I love the way it looks, big face, skinny little neck-thing, and cute round bottom... that's why I've named it already... "Baby-boo"
I was so SICK & TIRED of my stupid PC (Compaq) crashing & dying and freezing .... eeee, what a nightmare.
I bought an older mac at a garage sale... and it had an older operating system (forget which version... 8 maybe?) but I LOVED it at once.

My kids hated it (PC heads), but I knew my next computer would be a Mac. My teenage son, who's into programming, web design, servers, (and who does Java, Javascript, HTML, C+, SQL, Apache, .... um... what else...something that starts with a 'P'... I get the letters mixed up sometimes since I never really know what he's talking about....) anyway, he thinks he needs to use a PC...
but he's been sneaking onto my computer at times (says he just wants to see what his site looks like 'on a Mac'...) so I'm hoping he'll come around.

Say, how do you get to make a picture under your member name? (I'm definitely not a techie type... just another housewife who wants to DO something on a computer without messing it up too much!!)

[dafuser]

Originally posted by bambi
Say, how do you get to make a picture under your member name? (I'm definitely not a techie type... just another housewife who wants to DO something on a computer without messing it up too much!!)

1. Make sure you're logged in to the site
2. Look above the lists of formus and click on "user cp"
3. Click on "edit options"
4. Scroll to bottom of page, find "Avatar" section
5. Click on "Change Avatar"
6. Follow instructions on page for adding your icon to your user name.