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Plus I can make fun of you all I want. You don't have a picture so therefore you deserve it!

Anyway, on the more serious side, I put 7 of those MAC computers with monitors and printers outside with a big "FREE" sign on them. With the idea of someone helping themselves, I thought the pile would disappear. No such luck. Nobody seems to want them. It is a shame, because they are probably good machines. I really don't want to toss them in the dumpster.

The printers are apple Lazer Printers, industrial strength, I might add. Is there a way I can make those printers compatible to PC's without too much problem? If so, I will definately "rescue" them.

Thanks - Paul

As per the Mac versus PC things, its all a bunch of baloney. Both platforms have their own share of pluses and minuses. The over-generalized comments about what PCs cannot do in the "switch" campaign from Apple really get on my nerves. Windows PCs can do graphics, video, print work, scientific work and lots of other stuff in spite of what the "switch" ads claim. It is just that some things available on the Mac side allow you to do many of those tasks more easily. I could get Avid or Pinnacle Edition software for authoring video on the PC. But I think I would be better served getting the Final Cut Pro deal on the Mac side.

If Apple wants to slam Windows, they need to do it in the right way. Bust Bill Gates on Windows having so many security flaws, with Outlook Express being the chief culprit of them all. And then brag about some of the Apple-only "killer apps" like Final Cut Pro. Finally, let PC users know that many game developers, such as Id Software, are now producing games for the Mac.

That is going to sell more systems than the typically inaccurate, sickening mudslinging typical of so many Apple ad campaigns in the past. Steve Jobs needs to just cut out that negative shit already.

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The printers are apple Lazer Printers, industrial strength, I might add. Is there a way I can make those printers compatible to PC's without too much problem? If so, I will definately "rescue" them.

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There might be a way. There's a company that makes a device that converts Ethernet to AppleTalk. I think it sells for around $100. Any computer store that sells Mac should know the device. Using that device should work with an Apple Laser Printer, providing you have an appropriate Postscript driver on the Windows computer for that printer. But...if those printers are really old, it might not be worth the trouble.

And I'm not surprised that no one wanted those computers. The one in the picture looks like a Mac 6100. The earliest 6100 came out in 1994 and was discontinued in 1995. It was a 60MHZ machine and the Hard Disk was only 160MB. A single high-resolution Photoshop image can be that large.

The last 6100 series machine was a 6100/66/AV. It operated at 66MHZ and the largest hard disk available for it was 500MB, although most machines came with 350MB. It had a double-speed CD-ROM drive. It was discontinued in August of 1995.

The machines now deserve the fate indicated in that picture. But I have to confess, the machine looks like it held up really well under that truck tire.

As far as Mac vs. Wintel, I've used both for many years and personally, I greatly prefer the Mac with one UI exception: Mac OS has never gotten the mini-finder right. Windows got it right starting with Win98.

I happen to love their advertising campaign. For the first time in many campaigns, it actually contains some reasons to buy a Mac other than the fact that it's cool looking. But I also liked the ill-fated Lemmings campaign. I hated those ads that did nothing more than show an I-Mac in the color of the day spinning on a turntable. And I thought the ad of the kid on the airplane who takes up two tray tables to play music was also pretty stupid. Who is going to do that in real life?

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If Apple wants to slam Windows, they need to do it in the right way. Bust Bill Gates on Windows having so many security flaws, with Outlook Express being the chief culprit of them all.

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