[Am-info] New Apple store near Beantown

[Eric M. Bennett]

Erick Andrews wrote:

>So, in the trend of large numbers, how do you figure?  I'm sure somewhere
>on a backup of a backup...probably a Win3.1...I still have Eudora, too.  It
>probably works OK still, old as mine is, but I've learnt to want a "native"
>choice to my OS (read better than DOS), for API's if nothing else.
>
>Eudora is/was good, but is it "Mac native"?

I'm pretty sure Eudora was originally a Mac program, long before it 
was ever ported to Windows.  If you mean an OS X version, it's in 
beta.  I'm still using version 4 that dates from 1999 but it's got 
all the features I need (filtering etc.).

> Realistically choose-able now?

It's still the standard email program distributed here at Cornell 
(they distribute version 5, but I've chosen to stick with 4), 
although when I'm in the lab I usually use Netscape.

Isn't the real question the server, not the client?  If you have a 
server that supports standards like POP, then any POP client is 
realistically choosable as long as it's kept up to date.  And there 
are plenty of those, even on the Mac (Apple's Mail, Eudora, Bare 
Bones' Mailsmith, Nisus Email, and of course Microsoft's offerings).

>Is it practicably true that "...you aren't forced to buy Office with 
>a Mac..."?
>
>I really don't give a sweet one unless I see better value in choice than what
>I think it ought to be, today.

Your original comments could be interpreted as suggesting that 
leverage to buy Office comes from Apple.  I'm just trying to clarify 
that when you buy from Apple they don't try to push Office on you. 
I'm pretty sure they don't even list it as a preload option on their 
main system configuration page.  Apple will offers a non-Microsoft 
productivity package with the computers it sells.  How many other 
computer vendors of Apple's size can you name which also do this?

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Eric Bennett / ericb@pobox.com / emb22@cornell.edu
Cornell University, Chemistry & Chemical Biology

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