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Mac OSX equivalent to Garden Composer
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<blockquote data-quote="kfander" data-source="post: 1198796" data-attributes="member: 108491"><p>Insults are both unnecessary and unproductive, but that's okay. You were the only one here to actually attempt to answer the question that I proposed here, so I can forgive that. Product forums tend to attract those who feel a greater need to defend the product above that of offering support, so I appreciate the extra effort that you put in, and I did acknowledge that.</p><p></p><p>Although I am less than two years into my first Mac, I have probably been using computers longer than you have, beginning at a time when software had to be written by the end user, unless one were content to play games or to use their computer as a word processor, and when end users were expected to make whatever repairs or upgrades that needed to be made for themselves.</p><p></p><p>After awhile, many of us no longer want to spend our time doing everything for ourselves. Just as I seldom mow my own lawn, because I can make more money doing other things than it costs me to pay someone to mow my lawn, I no longer feel the need to replace my own computer parts or build web sites at the code level, and am consequently not as good at it as I might otherwise be. That's not technophobia, although I can appreciate that your use of the term might make you feel a cut above the others, and this is also why I am guessing that you are probably in your early to mid-twenties.</p><p></p><p>As mentioned, I did bring my MacBook into the Apple store once and paid them to fix the thing. The result was that I was out whatever amount of money it cost me, which seemed reasonable enough at the time, but nothing had changed on my computer.</p><p></p><p>I could probably handle a hard drive change but the amount of time that it would take me to back up my applications, change the drive, and reinstall my applications on the drive, even if there were no complications, is more time than I am willing to put into it right now. I have nine functioning PCs, and my MacBook functions to a degree, so I'll probably just stagger along with it until the next time I'm in Portland, a couple of hundred miles away, one way, which is where the nearest Apple store is, and hope that they do better with it this time than they did the last. Or until I decide to dump it and buy a real computer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kfander, post: 1198796, member: 108491"] Insults are both unnecessary and unproductive, but that's okay. You were the only one here to actually attempt to answer the question that I proposed here, so I can forgive that. Product forums tend to attract those who feel a greater need to defend the product above that of offering support, so I appreciate the extra effort that you put in, and I did acknowledge that. Although I am less than two years into my first Mac, I have probably been using computers longer than you have, beginning at a time when software had to be written by the end user, unless one were content to play games or to use their computer as a word processor, and when end users were expected to make whatever repairs or upgrades that needed to be made for themselves. After awhile, many of us no longer want to spend our time doing everything for ourselves. Just as I seldom mow my own lawn, because I can make more money doing other things than it costs me to pay someone to mow my lawn, I no longer feel the need to replace my own computer parts or build web sites at the code level, and am consequently not as good at it as I might otherwise be. That's not technophobia, although I can appreciate that your use of the term might make you feel a cut above the others, and this is also why I am guessing that you are probably in your early to mid-twenties. As mentioned, I did bring my MacBook into the Apple store once and paid them to fix the thing. The result was that I was out whatever amount of money it cost me, which seemed reasonable enough at the time, but nothing had changed on my computer. I could probably handle a hard drive change but the amount of time that it would take me to back up my applications, change the drive, and reinstall my applications on the drive, even if there were no complications, is more time than I am willing to put into it right now. I have nine functioning PCs, and my MacBook functions to a degree, so I'll probably just stagger along with it until the next time I'm in Portland, a couple of hundred miles away, one way, which is where the nearest Apple store is, and hope that they do better with it this time than they did the last. Or until I decide to dump it and buy a real computer. [/QUOTE]
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