Laurence Payne wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:11:11 +0000, Keith G
wrote:

I don't claim to have any 'skills' but I seem to be importing non-Mac
software for the jobs I need to do! iPhoto is a handy, simple/simplistic
prog for dealing with my snaps, but I haven't really gone with any other
of the bundled Mac software yet!

That said (Rob) I do like the machine a lot - it's nippy, neat and has a
clean-looking front end with a much better 'feel' than 'bloaty' old
Windows Vista!!

"Bloat" always makes me think of a Mac, with those inflatable icons
:-) I'm sure it can be configured not to do this. Even Vista is
pretty configurable too. What's important is how it behaves when
you're in an application. On Mac I'd be paying for a suite of
entry-level "creative" applications that I don't want or need. I
guess that's "bloat" as well.



I have a feeling I shan't use the bundled applications either and I did
get an 'Audacity has closed unexpectedly' message a while back so who
knows how it'll work out, but the fact is when I had 3 machines on the
go, swapping stuff between them, the Mac and the XP machine felt faster,
neater and generally less 'encumbered' than the Vista machine!

One really good thing is that with all my pix (17,000) and music
(18,000+ tracks) from the last nn years on the piddly little Mac now,
there is enough disk space left to *double* it all!!

Let's just hope I live that long!! ;-)