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?
