| 1. Macintosh--Macs rule, the others drool; a G4 Mac is quicker & more reliable than any other personal computer; the Mac operating system is significantly easier to use than Windows. Want "user friendly"? Get a Mac. I've used Mac & Windows quite a bit; of 100s of functions, I've only found 3 that Windows does better. A Mac can read both Mac & IBM disks. Put a disk into a Mac & what happens? An icon of the disk appears & a window of disk contents opens. Put a disk into some other computer & what happens? Nothing. With a Mac, if you want to know how much disk space is available, it says at the top of the disk window; with Windows, good luck. With a Mac, if you want to change the disk name, just click on the disk name that's conveniently under the icon; with Windows, good luck. When you want to take a disk out of a Mac, it won't let you 'til it's done with it (takes a few seconds.) With a non-Mac, you can press a button to eject the disk before all necessary info has been recorded. With a Mac, a handy calculator is easily accessed under the convenient pull down menu at the top of the screen. With Windows, good luck. Macs are more expensive; most people have chosen the cheaper Windows. All basic & many other software titles can be found for both Mac & Windows. Microsoft stole the operating system from Mac; Apple gave up the court challange; both are now able to use each other's ideas, but Windows hasn't incorporated many Mac features (maybe they don't want it to be too similar or people might switch to the Mac if Mac prices come down.) Microsoft makes 1 very good product, the spreadsheet Excel. Co-founder of Apple Computer Co., Steve Jobs, said that Microsoft wouldn't be so bad if they didn't make such 3rd rate products. 2. Dell 3. IBM 4. Hewlett Packard 5. Gateway 6. Compaq Not: Packard Bell 1st electronic computer The world's 1st electronic digital computer was invented during 1937-42 at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, by math professor John Vincent Attanasoff & his grad student Clifford Berry. It was called the ABC computer (Attanasoff-Berry Computer.) Some people mistakenly thought the ENIAC was the 1st computer; the inventors of the ENIAC actually used features they had seen of the ABC in making the ENIAC. Don't pass up a chance to see a replica of the ABC. It's a huge machine of cables, tubes, wax covered wires,... It recorded information by burning small holes into a moving roll of paper. Even though it was the 1st computer, it solved complicated math problems. Click here for more information. |
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