In article <JQ6kk.1327$XB4.117@bignews9.bellsouth.net>, "Moccasin Joe" <Jmocasano@optonline.com> wrote:
> "Ian Piper" <ianpiper@mac.com> wrote in message > news:6fc4dsFar5g1U1@mid.individual.net... > > On 2008-07-22 21:40:46 +0100, "Skyshark" <skyshark@hotmail.com> said: > > > >> A $25 million dollar plant upgrade. > >> > >> The Mac guy gave some of his Mickey Mouse, amaturish presentation, before > >> his Macbook froze. > >> The Dell Guy blew him out of the water with a seamless, professional, > >> Power > >> Point presentation. > >> Macs have no place in the real business world. > >> > >> To be honest, when the salesman walked in with a Macbook, he was behind > >> the > >> eight ball already. > > > > This isn't true, you know. A couple of years ago I was one of a number of > > speakers at a conference. I was the only one using a Mac PowerBook. I was > > the only one who could just plug in the video cable and start presenting - > > the others had a variety of button pressing, configuring and even > > rebooting ordeals. In fact I saved the bacon of one of the other speakers > > who just *couldn't* get his box-shifter Windows piece of rubbish to > > connect to the projector at all, so I let him use mine (running Keynote, > > which read his PPT file perfectly). Afterwards he said to me "I see what > > the fuss is about now. I'm going out this weekend and buying one of > > those". > > > > Just one other thing. Isn't "seamless, professional, Power Point > > presentation" a contradiction in terms? > > Were you there? I didn't think so.
Were you there? I know you weren't.
-- Alan Baker Vancouver, British Columbia <http://gallery.me.com/alangbaker/100008/DSCF0162/web.jpg>
