![]() In the meantime, over the month this was happening, we had done everything except reinstall Windows and replace the drive. ![]() Once it hit every hour, we made sure we had everything off the computer (I have always done backups, but when you have time to really look, you discover other stuff that needed backing up!).Finally, the thing wouldn't boot up at all. The iPhone made it quite apparent to me that I didn't need my Windows laptop with me when I went away except for DXpeditions and to access my business sites to enter in articles like this and doing maintenance work (which, of course, the passwords won't export over to Windows so the K9JY site was down much of my vacation.).Then, in a ThinkPad (I've always had ThinkPads here) that Kate uses started to simply lock up for no reason. Just what I want to do.Then came the iPhone. ![]() After searching hundreds of entries with the same problem identified as I would have - with no answers.Usually the answer for a Windows problem was simple: reformat the hard drive. Months would go by while searching Google for the Forums where someone finally came up with a solution that really worked. Windows was always about platforms, not making things work.And work it was - I spent a great deal of time getting anti-virus software, cleaning registry software for performance, getting hard drives taken care of and chasing quirky problems that always showed up at the wrong time. It was the first sense I had that Apple was about cool tools and not about big platforms. What I have seen looks compatible with my interfaces I already have, including Log of The World - but I haven't tested any of it yet.Why Apple?Windows started to fail with the advent of the iPod. Too busy getting the rest of it setup for the business ( Cube Rules).I've seen a bit of software out there for ham radio on the Mac, but I haven't tried any of it out just yet. Interestingly, it was over two months ago, but I haven't gotten around to doing any ham radio stuff with it yet.
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