I was one of those non-lucky people with Windows. Viruses, Trojans, you name it. I went to the Usenet groups once and didn't return. I got a Trojan and lots of spam. I didn't find Windows groups very forthcoming with information either. I tried yahoo groups but to no avail. I don't know what it's like now since I've been away from Windows for quite awhile. I could have been helped quite a bit if someone back then would have recommended Talk Shoe. I didn't know there were people that broadcasted what later became known as podcasts until I switched to Mac. People in the Mac world seem so much friendlier and willing to give out information. These are the things I saw with Windows. Everyone has their own experiences.
I work with a few dozen windows machines for friends and family. Rarelyxare printers plug and play. Even printers installed years ago the drivers vanish and I must download cantankerous often failing to install setup / driver programs. Sometimes its easy and no install often its painful and time consuming and interrupted by error messages and trips to Google to get back on track. Yeah some people get lucky - many do not.
On Jul 20, 2013 9:30 PM, "Tony" <tdale@xtra.co.nz> wrote:In fact I added a Brother printer a few months back for my wifes office, her Win laptop didn't require anything to be installed it did it automatically.
From: Alice <whiterabbit32@gmail.com>
To: "iPad@yahoogroups..com" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, 21 July 2013 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [iPad] The Battle Between iOS and Android Is About Apps | Mac360I use to buy PC's and have to go the HP or Canon site (whichever printer I had at the time) to get drivers. When I switched to Mac, the drivers were there. I have never built a PC. Never had the need to.\\ /\ Alice.( ). Sent from my iPad miniOn Jul 20, 2013, at 5:28 PM, Tony <tdale@xtra.co.nz> wrote:After XP, although the issue of drivers exists on any platform. If you build a PC, or upgrade it, you might well need to install drivers, as the OS won't have any newer drivers built in. You cannot build a Mac or upgrade one, that requires drivers, so the user is not exposed to drivers. Same with a Windows laptop, you cannot change the motherboard, videocard, and any other built in cards, so laptop owners don't have driver issues either.You could blow away the restore on a Win laptop and clean install Windows, that may require the odd driver, no issue though. Most would restore a backup. If Windows PC's only had a minimal set of internal devices that are used, as does Mac, all would be built in, so the conclusion is there is no inherent driver instances, apart from those generated by the ability to add and change PC hardware, if the PC builder makes that available, as in desktops.From: Alice <whiterabbit32@gmail.com>
To: "iPad@yahoogroups..com" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, 21 July 2013 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [iPad] The Battle Between iOS and Android Is About Apps | Mac360Are you talking XP and before? Or after XP? My experience has been Windows 3.0-XP. I used Win 7 for a little bit and no problem there. Haven't had any malware since switching.\\ /\ Alice.( ). Sent from my iPad miniOn Jul 20, 2013, at 4:42 PM, Tony <tdale@xtra.co.nz> wrote:Hee, all the problems about Windows not working?? I don't see that at all.From: Alice <whiterabbit32@gmail.com>
To: "iPad@yahoogroups..com" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, 21 July 2013 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [iPad] The Battle Between iOS and Android Is About Apps | Mac360Plug and play/integration was my favorite thing about Apple products when I switched from Windows. My favorite story is when I got my first Mac (white MP), I turned it on and used migration to move stuff from my Windows machine to my Mac. When it was done I asked Rob, What now? Download drivers for everything?" He said no, it just works. It did. It just worked. It was a weird concept to wrap my brain around coming from XP. Now, hearing all the problems with windows "just" not working is a hard concept to wrap my brain around LOL!\\ /\ Alice.( ). Sent from my iPad miniOn Jul 20, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Tony <tdale@xtra.co.nz> wrote:Integration, my favourite word when telling others about Apple. More so, that you do not need to make it work. Add Apple ID, done, pretty much.You can do all or most of this with Android using Google apps. But, you gotta get the apps, cobble it all together, it will not just work, you need to know how, and make it work. Not that difficult but not for the average user. Never out of the boxYou cannot beat integration that is built in as Apple's is.From: Alice <whiterabbit32@gmail.com>
To: "iPad@yahoogroups..com" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, 21 July 2013 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [iPad] The Battle Between iOS and Android Is About Apps | Mac360I can start texting on my phone, move to my Mac, end up on my iPad and the person I'm texting doesn't know I've been switching devices. I haven't heard of nor read where Android users do that or even if they can.\\ /\ Alice.( ). Sent from my iPad miniOn Jul 19, 2013, at 5:07 PM, Tony <tdale@xtra.co.nz> wrote:Hee, multitasking at its finest!From: Kris Murray <krismurray@gmail.com>
To: "iPad@yahoogroups.com" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, 20 July 2013 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [iPad] The Battle Between iOS and Android Is About Apps | Mac360I see. I can at sometimes hold conversations on my mac iPhone and ipad all at thesame time and many times I'll use my iPhone when my iPad is right there. ~KLM \\ "If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small..." ~Azim Premji // On Jul 19, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Tony <mailto:tdale%40xtra.co.nz> wrote: > > A smartphone is actually a poor device, too small, but on the run it has no peer. IMO, what we do on smartphones, mostly, is generic. If I am driving and using a GPS, it makes no difference what hardware is sitting on my car console, they all do the same thing. If I have to check a website, the website is the same on a S4, iPhone 5, Lumia, etc, the phone is just a placeholder
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