[Dbfilms]

Hooboy – I smell a flamewar!

Chaz, in answer to your questions:

[Chaz Shukat]Pifff! Small potatos next to MS Windows being a complete rip off of Macs OS.

So Xerox had nothing to do with the initial development of the GUI on computers…? 😀

[Chaz Shukat]The one clic mouse was part of Macs simplcity, they didn’t copy other mouses.

See above: Xerox made the first mouse I believe…

[Chaz Shukat]Who was the first to come out with a PC that wasn’t beige, was in a tiny unit the size of a candy tin, or was all in one unit, etc? Pah-leeze!

Quite a few other computer manufacturers actually. See https://www.old-computers.com/museum and search for Olympia Boss for a black, all-in one, computer that beat out the introduction of the Mac by 4 years, or Commodore PET 2001 for an all-in one that beat out the Mac by 7 years. Incidentally, the original Macs were beige… (I bought one when they came out in ’84)

[Chaz Shukat]And PCs still require additional keystrokes either way.

I think this is just a matter of the program you happen to be using and their integration with the OS. Photoshop uses the same number of keystrokes for commands irregardless of Mac v. Win platform. A tightly written program can reduce the number of keystrokes required irregardless of the platform, so I don’t see this as being particularly endemic to one platform or the other.

[Chaz Shukat]And since when is not having viruses a disadvantage?

If you maintain proper editing system isolation, then virii are a non-issue on Wintel machines as well.

Just for the record, I don’t care one way or the other for the Mac v. Win debate – I’ve used both in the past and I look for the tool that best performs the functions which I require. For me, that is currently a couple of Wintel boxes. YMMV, and that’s cool with me.

Cheers,

Rich Fanning
Drawing Board Films