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<blockquote data-quote="Village Idiot" data-source="post: 399243" data-attributes="member: 29446">This just sounds like different settings on the dell's os vs what you have in parallels. It's not some magical thing in the mac that makes it work. Sorry, I'm an IT guy and everything works for a reason, usually a setting or something similar is the reason.What's funny is if we had imacs in the office instead of PC's, I would get a lot more calls about broken computers rather than broken monitors. You wouldn't believe how many times I get called over and plug in a monitor that has a power cable that comes loose...and don't they feel bright when they ask what's wrong and I tell them it wasn't plugged in. That's the life of a &quot;customer service&quot; tech.That's how I perceive a lot of mac users, most who like to quote Apple's great marketing slogans like &quot;It just works&quot; or &quot;It's just better&quot;. Most of those people aren't very tech literate in the first place and they're happy to remain that way and don't know why their macs work or don't do anything besides your typical software usage. Most of these people will never do anything to a Mac that causes it not to work. Then again there's a lot of PC users out there that are like that. They just don't have any nifty slogans...I mean, if some one came up to me and said &quot;DUDE!!! Get a Dell!!!&quot;, I'd probably hit them.Plus it's easier to break XP if you don't know what you're doing. Vista is a little more dummy proof.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Village Idiot, post: 399243, member: 29446"] This just sounds like different settings on the dell's os vs what you have in parallels. It's not some magical thing in the mac that makes it work. Sorry, I'm an IT guy and everything works for a reason, usually a setting or something similar is the reason. What's funny is if we had imacs in the office instead of PC's, I would get a lot more calls about broken computers rather than broken monitors. You wouldn't believe how many times I get called over and plug in a monitor that has a power cable that comes loose...and don't they feel bright when they ask what's wrong and I tell them it wasn't plugged in. That's the life of a "customer service" tech. That's how I perceive a lot of mac users, most who like to quote Apple's great marketing slogans like "It just works" or "It's just better". Most of those people aren't very tech literate in the first place and they're happy to remain that way and don't know why their macs work or don't do anything besides your typical software usage. Most of these people will never do anything to a Mac that causes it not to work. Then again there's a lot of PC users out there that are like that. They just don't have any nifty slogans...I mean, if some one came up to me and said "DUDE!!! Get a Dell!!!", I'd probably hit them. Plus it's easier to break XP if you don't know what you're doing. Vista is a little more dummy proof. [/QUOTE]

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