Was going to suggest you now have yet another reason to chuck the Macs...

Probably doesn't help tho...

Not really, Paul, but kinda funny anyway.     

I'll always be a Windows guy, but the Macs are, to me, like an oddity, a missing link, something of an experiment.

Not by any means a usable, daily main machine.

RedneckDude

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Not really, Paul, but kinda funny anyway.     

I'll always be a Windows guy, but the Macs are, to me, like an oddity, a missing link, something of an experiment.

 

Not by any means a usable, daily main machine.

I also like Windows better but I used Macs for quite a few years when I worked in the newspaper business. They were great. They could easily be a daily machine. The thing is though they don't take to customization as good as Windows machines. Having said that since they were company machines I didn't mess too much with trying to customize the Mac.   

If you try a little you can customize the Mac. Not as much as one would like.  Icons, and dock backgrounds can be changed, and live wallpapers can be run.

Speaking of speed....

I've just moved house...from almost the biggest city in Australia [Melbourne will pass Sydney soon] to the third biggest city in Victoria...4.9 million down to 101 thousand.

Australia is in the throes of getting an 'NBN' National Broadband Network which was originally going to be optic fibre to the premises, but got whittled down to optic to a node and carrier pigeon [or something] to the premises.

Best that is likely to be achieved is about 50 Mbps....still behind third world countries....

Gets worse... incompetence [and monopoly] was going to have me do much of the work FOR them to connect it to the new place....even though it SHOULD have been completed 10 years ago...Ballarat was part of the trial roll-out back then....and believe it or not...where I left from...the old house...only about 3km from the center of Melbourne still hasn't got it....I was on ADSL2 there.

Gets worser... while they were trying to set me up all I had was the NBN Modem with a 4G sim card in it...so for a month or two I had about 5 Mbps.

Finally I saw the light...went with something outside of this NBN 'monopoly' and got Cable ...it was already there...the previous owner clearly had seen the light [too].

Took no time at all to get the service set up....ran a speed test...and pulled 460 Mbps.

And to top it off....I'm saving myself about $10 per month.

Goes to show, even after 42 years as a loyal customer ...you try to screw me and I'll walk....

Wow, you did good. 

I am with Spectrum, cable. They upgraded me yesterday and today their router went tits up...lol.  Tech coming tomorrow.

That will happen when you're trying to push too many sheep through at the same time.

Baa?

All fixed!!!

Should have moved to Tassie... it's all optic fibre to the premises here.  Luckily, it was all rolled out here before that idiot Turnbull bottle-necked the remaining NBN connections with "carrier pigeon" to the premises.  In fact, Tassie was one of the first states to receive the NBN in its original roll-out of fibre to the premises.

Pretty much the whole of Ipswich City in QLD had fibre to the premises after the 2011 floods drenched the copper network and rendered it pretty much useless.