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#1
May 3rd, 2005, 08:03 PM
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| Shock and Awe to show off 10.4 to PC users? Can anyone provide some stuff Tiger can do that I could show off to PC users to make their jaws drop? Somethings that come to mind is Expose Dashboard New Search feature FireWire Target mode 3rd party favorites are QuickSilver and LiteSwitch Other small ones would be: Genie effect Full size icons Playing Quicktime movies in the Dock Anything else you would recommand?  |
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#2
May 3rd, 2005, 08:28 PM
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| Safari's 2.0 ability for Private Browsing. OS X's ability to run Unix programs. X11. The Finder's easy search and the ability for easy Application install and removal. The availability of Microsoft Office (Office 2004 version). Plug and play. Almost any USB mouse plug and play. Native DVD player. iMovie (free to OS X), iPhoto (free) + Image Capture (it is in your hard drive)=any Digital Camera support, with no additional drivers. GarageBand RSS screensaver Safari RSS support Xbox Browser. They will love that. Tab browsing (most Windows users still use I.E.) No real viruses to date so far (for OS X). SMB support. Kerberos support in Tiger.
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#3
May 3rd, 2005, 08:39 PM
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| Hell, I'd say just create them their own throw-away account and let them go at it... Otherwise, ya gotta demonstrate whatever you think will blow the respective person's socks off... show off XCode and the Terminal to those PC-code geeks, since they'll appreciate that... show off the eye-candy to the gaming freaks, since they appreciate cool visual effects... show off GarageBand to those independent musicians... show off Mail and Safari to grandma and grandpa as well as those with little computer experience... Hell, even if they still don't like it, it doesn't matter -- it's all about what computing environment you're most comfortable and are the most productive in, anyway! If they think their PC is so much better, don't bother wasting time trying to convince them -- you'll just further the stereotype of Mac users being hoity-toity and fanatical. Simply show them what you've accomplished at the end of the day, and compare it to their accomplishments. Chances are, yours will look better, sound better, cost less, be received better and be done in half the time.
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#4
May 3rd, 2005, 09:20 PM
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| The best things to impress PC users are: Holding down shift while running exposé or minimizing to the dock (try it!), The 'Flurry' screensaver, Scaleing up icons and letting them see the high-res GUI sweetness, Dock magnification in all it's (pointless) glory, Did I mention expose? The fact that the whole thing is cooler, not just the hardware....
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May 3rd, 2005, 09:43 PM
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| I was thoroughly impressed myself with spotlight, I'm sure that any avg Windows user would be astonished.
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May 3rd, 2005, 11:49 PM
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| Expose Dashboard Automater iLife iWork the new Preferences Spotlight Showed that to one of my colleague's at the Grocery Store i work with...he's thinking about getting a Mac Mini bringing it information on it tommorrow (wendesday)huge PC fanatic build's them in his free time, lol
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