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I like the fact that some made suggestions, and I like the fact that you ( the writer ) are not being biased. I use macs and pcs, I hate neither nor I prefer either. I don’t see what the point of all this anger from one platform to another is. If it clicks for you great, have at it – neither one is perfect and free of absolute flaws. Microsoft was an “evil” company to some, Apple is worse when you really look at it, but the fact is that none of that matters, all that matters is that you’re happy with the product you bought and if anyone needs help with it, extend a hand. If they’re bashing your product – stay cool and stay out of it. We’re not in high school anymore are we?

The reason why you have those disadvantages on the mac is that APPLE keeps a very tight and aggressive control over any development of software. Look up the battle between Adobe and Apple as a reference. Since Apple does NOT allow an open and direct access approach to its platform, developers don’t care to build on it as much, especially when Apple is developing competing software WITH the hardware address calls advantage. So basically, the thing that keeps the Mac a safer machine ( less viruses) is really the reason WHY its market both in customer and in developers is much smaller. Apple is gaining the spotlight not for its computers but for the iPhone and iPod. Its been ALL about the great marketing they’ve spent people’s millions on. Microsoft’s approach was different, Linux and Unix is different. Everyone has their way and when things fail for them, they either change or die. When things go well for them, the gov breaks them up. haha! … ( had to add some humor there ) You all better look out for Google. Terrible GUI’s and TERRIBLE presentation but those guys are building up from behind the curtain some MAJOR things. Functionality being first, Google is developing things that WILL put APPLE, LINUX, SUN and MICROSOFT on a hot plate!

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I did one of the classroom sessions with Netmeschek / Revolve in Toronto, and most of the people in the room were from Architecture firms, and by the end of the 3 days (basic + intermediate) they said they’d be going back to the office, re-training everyone, and suggesting a complete replacement of the antiquated copies of autocad they were running (upgrading was cost-prohibitive for the work they were doing)

… Sure, Autocad is the “standard”, but since vectorworks can read, save and import/export to the “standard”, why wouldn’t you want to make the switch?

… article research FAIL.

Vectorworks is superior to Autocad in ALL aspects, and was originally written for the MAC.

Oh, and did I mention cheaper?

Nadyne Mielke, user experience researcher in MacBU

There are lots of very good OS X apps that are not available for Windows.

“Apple needs to alleviate some of the fear from users and IT staff by having better instructions and more knowledge available when we run into an issue.”

Why should they? The Mac is personal computer not a business computer. Business computers (and the Windows OS) are designed around business requirements of “cheap” and “good enough”. That why they suck.