On Feb 7, 2004, at 14:29 , Warlord wrote: > I'm a PC user as well. Gateway wasn't bad, back in the day, but now.... > I'm building my own now. High end intel motherboard, P4/ 3.+ > multithread, > 2GB dual channel memory, raided SATA drives. Control-alt-delete is > going to work *fast* :) > > W > > "I've never used a MAC, but I understand they emulate Windows pretty > well." Actually, Windows licensed it's "look and feel" from Apple, way back in 1985, I believe. This was a spectacularly dumb idea by then CEO Sculley, who gave Microsoft carte blanche to copy anything they wanted >from the Mac GUI in future software products. References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows http://bitter.custard.org/mac/hist/ Anyway, not to start a Mac/PC flamewar, since it's so completely off-topic to this list, but I thought that you might want to learn a little history. For those people that don't want to have to build their own PC, Macs are great computers. For those who want a UNIX environment and don't want to build their own OS, Mac OS X is a great OS. For those who want to have their system lock up on a weekly basis, and want to have to reinstall their OS on a bi-monthly basis, there's Windows. In fact, one reason that PC users need 3 GHz+ processors is so they can get work done while their machine is constantly scanned for viruses... :) -- Matthew S. Klahn Software Architect, CodeTek Studios, Inc. http://www.codetek.com