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• Wednesday, November 7, 2007 01:36 PM

  My three main computer uses

  I am a writer and public speaker. The three main uses of my computer are writing, and most of my publishers want my work in Word; Power Point, and my programs work much better when made and displayed by PCs, and a software called AviSys designed to keep track of the birds I see, which only operates on a Windows platform. Oh--and I always use lots of windows for browsing. When I'm visiting my friend and using her Mac, she never allows me to open one browser window until I've closed the one I'm in.

  I am sure there are some uses for which Macs are far superior. But I cannot think of a single way they'd be superior for me. And I still can't get that crashing Nanosaur game out of my mind--it was a game that was actually bundled with the only Mac I ever bought, and it crashed all the time. The horror! The baby dinosaurs that were never saved! I'm not a gamer, and this is the only computer game I ever got good at except an old, old version of Frogger and Tetris on my kids' GameBoy. But those poor baby dinosaurs--the whole Mac experience left a sad feeling in me.

  I don't care if PCs are Fords. We put 120,000 miles on my Pinto before we gave it to my in-laws, who drove it another 10,000 miles and sold it. And I put 170,000 miles on my Ford Aspire before selling it. Might not have been fancy, but they sure were reliable. Just like my 4-year-old PC which has NEVER crashed.

  —chickadee Read chickadee's other letters
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