"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?