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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 960054" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p>"Stone age" meaning pre Mac OS X days of Apple. Circa 2000 and before. Back in those days all of what should now be a relic all the things you hear about Apple computers were actually true. Macs were incompatible with everything else and intentionally so. Their hardware WAS overpriced compared with PCs, their OS WAS clunky buggy and crashy. Back then I swore I'd never buy an Apple product for those reasons and more. This completely (if slowly) changed around 2000 or so. Now, everything 'just works' and is compatible (with caveats noted above) with other OSes but because of the complete clusterfark that was Apple before that time so damaged people's perception of Macs that we still get myths and ignorant dismissal of Macs all over the place in the mind of computer users.</p><p></p><p>So now we can work with the Windows world, the hardware is more expensive, but not overly so for what you get and this is why I have an all-apple household (not office, that's different; I get paid for that and they issue me a PC) today, and yes I can transfer files around between Mac/PC with external HD's (though all of mine are formatted Mac OS Extended Journaled) and thumb drives, which I format FAT32.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 960054, member: 9385"] "Stone age" meaning pre Mac OS X days of Apple. Circa 2000 and before. Back in those days all of what should now be a relic all the things you hear about Apple computers were actually true. Macs were incompatible with everything else and intentionally so. Their hardware WAS overpriced compared with PCs, their OS WAS clunky buggy and crashy. Back then I swore I'd never buy an Apple product for those reasons and more. This completely (if slowly) changed around 2000 or so. Now, everything 'just works' and is compatible (with caveats noted above) with other OSes but because of the complete clusterfark that was Apple before that time so damaged people's perception of Macs that we still get myths and ignorant dismissal of Macs all over the place in the mind of computer users. So now we can work with the Windows world, the hardware is more expensive, but not overly so for what you get and this is why I have an all-apple household (not office, that's different; I get paid for that and they issue me a PC) today, and yes I can transfer files around between Mac/PC with external HD's (though all of mine are formatted Mac OS Extended Journaled) and thumb drives, which I format FAT32. [/QUOTE]
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