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Scary, But I Could Almost Consider A Mac
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Posted by Garland Coulson
Sep 16, 2013 at 11:38 PM
I have been a trainer and consultant for many years in the business community. Because I worked with many business clients and needed programs compatible with them, I used Windows.
I did do some contract work with a client on a Mac 20 years ago and really enjoyed it but every time I considered a Mac, there were a lot of programs I ran for Internet marketing, etc that just didn’t exist for Mac.
Recently I purchased a higher end computer (Windows again) and started to set it up. Usually it takes me 2-3 days to install all the programs I need to really get productive again. But this time, I hadn’t realized how many of my programs were now on the cloud.
My CRM, my project management software, my email, and most of my software are now on the cloud. I was up and running in a few hours.
It made me realize that, for the first time, I could probably seriously consider a Mac instead of a Windows computer. Wow!
Posted by Franz Grieser
Sep 17, 2013 at 07:38 AM
>My CRM, my project management software, my email, and most of my software are now on the cloud.
That’s what I would call scary :-)
Posted by Hillman
Dec 15, 2013 at 03:21 AM
Gosh, your entire concept is pretty scary. First the Mac, then the cloud. What next? Evernote? I lof off.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 15, 2013 at 09:42 AM
Garland Coulson wrote:
>But this time, I hadn’t realized how many of my programs were now on the cloud.
>My CRM, my project management software, my email, and most of my
>software are now on the cloud. I was up and running in a few hours.
Do you mean that the specific desktop programs you had been using are now available as cloud services, or that in recent years you gradually switched to cloud services replacing your desktop software?
Posted by 22111
Dec 22, 2013 at 07:04 PM
“Posted by Hillman
Dec 15, 2013 at 03:21 AM
Gosh, your entire concept is pretty scary. First the Mac, then the cloud. What next? Evernote? I lof off.”
OMG. But let’s get serious here. In the Eighties, I didn’t have the money to buy a Mac: It was 10,000 deutschmarks, and it wasn’t even a Lisa!
Somebody remember Silicon Graphics? About 30,000 deutschmarks, and more, but the absolute dream, these days 30 years ago. Btw it was Silicon Graphics that reminded me, then, that Apple, after all, was NOT as high-brow as they pretend to be…
Today, I’m not young anymore, and all I ever did - even in graphics, FreeHand, Illustrator, dtp, has been done within the Win world - what a preposterous abbreviation that is, “Windows” of course NOT being in any relationship with “winning”, all to the contrary, Windows is crap.
Franz is so right, I should learn programming - problem is, I have to make a living, too, and so I have to minimize “further efforts”, considering mon age - many of here are in their 50s, Cassius being our doyen, Dr Andus - will you get your PhD in 2014 at least: I very much wish so!!! - being our “pet-of-the-family” - that’s an awful demination, but that’s what “Langenscheidt’s Handwörterbuch” gives me for “Nesthäkchen”, “junior” would probably be the more precise term.
Let’s put it bluntly: I’m too learn to “learn Mac”. About 70,000 lines of code of my “Manuscript” sw 15 years ago (and no, “Lotus Manuscript” had been buried more than 10 years ago then, me not making a “criminal” or such) are in a (defunct) Windows programming/scripting language, my about 5,000 or more lines of AHK code are Windows-only, so I’m stuck, literally.
But then, we all know that ace programmers, or more precisely, ace sw architects, always did their programming work for the Mac. It’s much less so, but for for the uniq