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the windoze logo was made on a mac. All major publications Even the PC
mags use almost only macs for graphics and layout. Doom is a piece of
outdated sharware that doesn't hold a candle to Marathon, or even PID.
DOOM players cheat alot more than marathon players, marathon does not even
have any bulilt in cheat features. BTW I am talking ot your postmaster,
and if you ever post to this group again with such mac hating trash I will
am sure that you will be flooded. And finaly here is a list for you:

Reason 1. Pop in a floppy and the Mac responds with an icon on the
desktop that lets you know exactly where it is. Windows 95 plays
hide-and-seek
by sticking the floppy disk's icon on any one of your hard drives
somewhere
under the "My Computer" icon. Where's the floppy, where's the
floppy... good
boy!

Reason 2. The Mac is easy enough for a kid to use. Sixty-three
percent of the
computers in U.S. public schools are Macs, so many kids form
strong, early
attachments to the world's most lovable OS. Why hold back your
children by
making them use Windows?

Reason 3. The Mac OS always launches a document with the application
from which it sprung. Windows users, however, can't be sure the
document and
the application that created it will stay hitched. If Windows users
move a
document or a program to a different drive, the connection between
the document
and its creator application vanishes. Also, a Win 95 document can only be
associated with one application, no matter which app created the
file. A newly
installed program can sometimes take over these ties so that
documents no longer
open automatically with the apps that made them.

Reason 4. All Macs ever made come LocalTalk-ready, making it easy to
connect even a Mac Plus with the newest, top-of-the-line Power Mac using
AppleTalk. With PCs, it's virtually impossible to connect older
80286 systems
with newer Pentium systems. Also, connecting a Mac to an Ethernet network
generally takes half the steps it takes to hook up a Wintel.

Reason 5. The Mac is not only hip, but also well-connected. You can
daisy-chain up to seven SCSI devices, internally or externally, to
a single port on
the Mac. The typical Wintel machine does not include a port for
connecting
external storage devices. Instead, PCs have an IDE interface that
only allows you
to connect two internal hard drives. Worse, some low-profile PCs
can only hold
one internal hard drive: to upgrade your hard drive, you must
completely replace
the original one. About the only way around this dilemma is to buy
a SCSI card to
hook up external devices or buy a drive that can hook up to the
PC's external - but
slow - parallel port. PCs do support an EIDE interface that lets
you connect up to
four devices, but other than hard drives you can only hook up
CD-ROM drives
and a few tape drives.

Reason 6. DOS is a pain in the butt to use, and whether Windows users
admit it or not, it's still there in Win 95, lurking and waiting.
For example, when
saving a file on a Mac, you can name it whatever you want. On a PC,
if you don't
follow the DOS rules and regulations - try including a question
mark, back slash
or various other non-letters in your filename - you could wind up
with mysterious
error messages that even Nancy Drew would find puzzling.

And woe be unto you if you run into a problem during startup. Say,
for example,
your PC Card isn't present and your system expects it to be there -
you'll
unexpectedly drop into good ol' DOS as the eerie sounds of the last
laugh ring out
from the Mac user at the other end of the office.

Reason 7. Although Windows 95 finally eliminated the
eight-character limit
for filenames, Windows 3.1 will translate long filenames back into
it's own
cryptic code, making filesharing between the two systems a task for
the FBI. All
versions of the Mac OS, on the other hand, understand 32-character
filenames.

Reason 8. Games look and sound better on the Mac. "Every developer that
I've worked with that has created the Mac version of a hit PC
title, prefers the
resulting Mac version over any other platform and it has to do with
graphic
fidelity, the quality of the sound and the overall look of the
game," says Craig
Fryar, MacPlay Talent Scout, former Apple Games Evangelist and
co-author of
the hit game Spectre.

Reason 9. The Mac is easier to set up than a Windows machine. A
10-year-old Mac user was pitted against the Editor-in-Chief of a major PC
magazine in a contest at a recent Software Publishers Association
meeting to see
which platform was easiest to set up. The 10-year-old took 16 minutes, 15
seconds to get his Mac system up and running, while the Wintel
expert clocked in
at 26 minutes, 15 seconds.

Reason 10. AppleScript lets users, with even slight programming
instincts, bend applications to their will with very little time or
effort. With
AppleScript, you can make applications work together in new ways,
achieving the
same effect as if you had created a custom program from scratch. To
date, there is
no PC equivalent.

Reason 11. QuickTime, an Apple innovation, was the first file format that
allowed people to easily create videos, and cut, paste and
otherwise edit them just
like they could with any file format. To date, QuickTime still
provides the easiest,
best way for users to create videos that can run on Windows or Mac OS
machines.

Reason 12. Macs are faster. Between their RISC-based processors and
32-bit
applications (many Windows apps are still dawdling under 16-bit
apps), the Mac
leaves Wintel machines choking on its dust.

Reason 13. The Mac is still the first choice for creative types. Adobe's
PageMill and SiteMill, tools that make creating and updating Web
pages easier
than watching an episode of "The Single Guy", were first created
for the Mac.
The initial code for PageMill was written for Windows, but market
research
showed that "the creative people were all using Macs," says Robert
Seidl, who
co-founded Ceneca Communications (the creators of PageMill). "It was a
business decision for us, not a religious decision - our initial
customers were on
the Mac," says Seidl.

Reason 14. Mac designers wanting more pizzazz for their pages can easily
make images pop off the screen thanks to Apple's QuickDraw 3D. While
Windows users do have a 3D alternative, Direct 3D, it lacks a
standard interface,
so you can't copy and paste 3D objects into 2D applications. And,
because the
Windows 3D alternative doesn't support a standard file format, there's no
guarantee that the 3D graphic you create in one program will open
in another 3D
application. Fortunately for Windows users, Apple plans to create a
Windows
version of QuickDraw 3D.

Reason 15. In 1995, Apple was granted 53 technology patents - more than
any other computer company, according to Information Week.

Reason 16. "The Mac is largely responsible for the multimedia revolution.
Apple's early adoption of CD-ROM drives and the creation of programs like
Director, Photoshop and CodeWarrior have made the Macintosh the
multimedia
platform of choice. Also, delivering product to the Macintosh
audience is a joy
because they don't have the system compatibility problems common to other
platforms." - Bill Appleton, president of CyberFlix, creator of
DreamFactory and
SuperCard.

Reason 17. You may need Word for Windows if you're creating stodgy
reports for the boss, but if you plan on doing anything even
remotely creative
you'll want a Macintosh. The Mac became an industry standard for
graphics early
on thanks to the grand slam combination of PageMaker, PostScript and the
LaserWriter. Now the Mac is such an integral part of the creative
process that even
the art departments of many PC-based organizations, such as PC
Computing, PC
Magazine and PC World use Macs exclusively.

Reason 18. A true friend, the Mac can talk to you and recognize
your voice
through built-in PlainTalk and speech analysis. Wintel machines, however,
remain speechless.

Reason 19. Macs speak a variety of foreign languages - you can format a
floppy as a PC disk from your Mac, read foreign files, write to
foreign disks, etc.
PCs are like arrogant Americans who assume that everyone else
should learn their
language.

Reason 20. Wintel machines are easy prey to infection. More than 8,000
viruses exist for the PC, with 100 to 200 new bugs introduced each month,
according to a spokesperson from McAffee, creators of anti-virus
software - the
Mac has succumbed to only 40 or 50 such deadly diseases in its history.

Reason 21. Windows 95 supposedly supports Plug and Play - a user adds
in a Plug-and-Play compatible board and Windows will automatically
configure it.
But, for a variety of reasons, this does not always work, meaning
that the user
then needs to reconfigure the board's drivers - the very task
Plug-and-Play was
supposed to prevent. Mac users, on the other hand, simply need to
click on the
Installer application that comes with a piece of hardware and they are
up-and-running.

Reason 22. Thanks to the overdesigned Windows 95 interface, it's hard to
tell what's clickable and what's not. The interface elements that
should be
grabbing your attention, such as informative text and clickable
buttons, fade into a
swamp of flashy bevels and gratuitous grayscale decoration. Apple's
restrained
interface makes it much easier for Mac users to tell which parts of
the screen they
should be paying the most attention to.

Reason 23. Many Windows applications require uninstall programs to
remove an application and all of its associated (and frequently
invisible) files
completely and safely from your hard drive. On the Mac, just about
the only
programs that force you to use an uninstall utility are those from
Microsoft.

Reason 24. Type 11 errors are nothing compared to the bugs,
incompatibilities and overall instability of Windows 95. While Mac
upgrades are
usually refinements based on old, reliable code, the Windows
revamps result in a
totally new product. Although Windows 95 runs better than Windows
3.1 overall,
users are still suffering growing pains.

Reason 25. Troubleshooting on a Mac often means popping in Casady &
Greene's Conflict Catcher or Norton Disk Doctor and following
doctor's orders.
Troubleshooting on a Windows machine means you need to know your IRQ from
your DMA and your CONFIG.SYS from your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
--
Cheaters donšt really win,
and winners donšt really cheat,
Unless youšre talking politics.
--Durandal
Marathon II