jeffpollard.net: Retrospect and Mac Vs. PC

April 19, 2001

Retrospect and Mac Vs. PC

Not too much to talk about tonight. Olivia and I did some pretty major grocery shopping, then we came home and watched TechTV, chatted with Mike and Brian, and watched TechTV. Meanwhile, I worked on installing retrospect and Retrospect Client on our computers. I now have a not-so-organized backup schedule that backs up all important data on both Olivia's Powerbook, my TiBook, and the "server" G3. It's pretty cool: basically, I tell it what needs to be backed up, how often I want it to be backed up, and where to back it up to. So then, every two weeks or so, I just burn a CD of all of the backup files on the server. Pretty easy. And it only cost me $10 on eBay for the network clients.

On techTV tonight, Silicon Spin featured a discussion on the future of Apple. Our favorite fruit company announced a quarterly profit of $43 million today and expects that to be even better next quarter. So, the debate on Silicon Spin was about whether Apple is a leader in the PC market or a follower with a dim future. With John C. Dvorak anchoring, the debate was fairly one-sided, but the lead editor from MacWorld gave some great arguments why the Mac is a great platform and will always survive because it innovates, not immitates. It was pretty frustrating listening to those guys give totally bogus reasons why Macs are inferrior. For example: PC Guy: "Macs aren't expandable." MacWorld guy: "That's totally untrue. The new Power Mac G4s have 4 PCI slots and 1 AGP slot, 4 DIMM slots for up to 1.5GB or RAM, 2 extra slots for Zip or other removable media, 4 internal slots for hard drives, plus Firewire and USB, which is used in almost all peripherals on the market." The PC guy came back with: "Well, but the iMacs aren't expandable at all" Well, that's sort-of true..but that's only ONE COMPUTER. The iMac is designed for people who don't care about expanding..and the G4 is built for people who DO. It's just amazing what arguments people come up with. Arguments that have no backing.

Anyways, it's off to bed for me. And I'll sleep well now, knowing that all of my data automatically gets backed up often. :)

Posted by Jeff at April 19, 2001 01:05 AM

Comments

I hate macs. You can't do anything on Macs. Ewww. :::shuddering:::

Posted by: PJ Thomason at April 19, 2001 10:32 AM

It was a real contrast between the old, male, white, landowner spouting off about how Apple was the bain of computing and then the young fella, hip cool, talking about how hip and cool Apple was.

I totally agree with the pro-Apple guy. I think the flowery iMacs are ugly, but you know what? I'm not the target audience! I think an iBook is not powerful enough, but you know what? I'm a power user, and I'm not the intended audience!

For a reviewer of products, that old guy sure was biased and opinionated. Didja notice when he was talking about Macs how it was never from personal experience? He always said "what Mac users tell me is..." What kind of reviewer never touches the product to be reviewed? What is that?

Posted by: Brian (Rant King) at April 19, 2001 12:10 PM

Come baaaaaack to beeeeeeeed Jeff! It's cooooooooold!

Posted by: Goatboy at April 19, 2001 01:49 PM

Who is Goatboy?

I LOVE Macs!

Posted by: Mom at April 19, 2001 09:03 PM

Is it time to start buying Apple stock?

Posted by: spollard at April 19, 2001 09:06 PM

Gosh..I'd LOVE to. I just don't have the money to do it, though. :(

I guess I'll just have to be happy with the Agency's 401K plan when I can join in July. :)

Posted by: Jeff at April 19, 2001 09:12 PM

Come on people, MAC'S suck. That all I am going to say with out offending Jeff's mom.

Posted by: You will soon see at April 20, 2001 12:56 AM

NO, don't but macs stock. I agree with the guy/girl above. Oh and Hi Jennifer.

Posted by: Master D at April 20, 2001 12:58 AM

Mrs. Pollard-- I was teasing Jeff. Goatboy's from an Adam Sandler skit. We used to listen to it waaaay back in the dorms our freshman year. :)

Posted by: Brian Korte at April 20, 2001 10:21 AM

GEEKS!

Posted by: buba at April 20, 2001 10:57 AM

Gee, Mr. "Master D", I'm sure it IS easy to "agree with the guy/girl above", since that person is YOU. I see that you're both joining us today from PPPA58-RESALEATLANTAB1-1R7524.DIALINX.NET.

Hmm..now who do I know from Atlanta? Gee, I wonder.

So, since you put "guy/girl", are you having a sexual identity crisis?

Posted by: Admin at April 20, 2001 12:30 PM

Well, lets see smart ass. First of all I was not the person with the first commet. So right of the bat we see you have no idea what your talking about. So who ever YOU are, better go back and check agin. You have got something crossed up. Besides my crap computer would never be fast enough to post two comments within two min's. So if you like Apple stock, go ahead buy all you want and I will invest in something worth wild.

Posted by: Master D at April 22, 2001 11:56 PM

Ok, I checked again. And, my logs still show the same IP address for both posts. I guess you haven't figured out how to mask your IP address yet. Keep trying.

By the way, IP addresses never lie. In fact, your post tonight was made from somewhere in Atlanta, too. Interesting. Take a look:

dialup-63.210.78.238.atlanta1.level3.net

By the way, I think Apple's stock is plenty worth WILD.

Posted by: Admin at April 23, 2001 12:42 AM

I can tell you stright up I did not post the first comment. I dont know who did, but it was not me. How well is this masked?

Posted by: Master D at April 23, 2001 01:43 AM