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[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> Goddlefrood asked:
> > Have /you/ used a Mac? If not, why do you hate them?
> 
> Carol responds:
> I don't state that I hate something that I haven't tried. :-)  I was
> forced to use a Mac laptop instead of my familiar PC desktop at the
> job I had before I became a freelance copyeditor--that was one of the
> reasons why I quit. 

Geoff:
Ah, perhaps it's laptops you hate....

I do. I can't stand the things partly because of the tracker pads.

I assure you that, on my Mac Mini G4, you /can/ delete forwards 
although it's something I would never do - it seems counter to 
what is normal for me -and I have a standard two-button mouse. 
As an aside, when I switched from Acorns to PCs in 2000, I had 
to get used to this because Acorn used a three-button mouse.

Again, on the Mac, I find it has a far more stable platform than 
the PC. I can count the crashes I've had in two years on the 
fingers of half a hand and if a program locks up, it is very 
simple to unscramble without affecting anything else.

I suppose it's a case of personal liking. You won't get me back 
to owning a PC - although I have to use one for the projection 
work at  church.