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Macs are still better than Windows PCs. A journalist colleague of mine recently put this question out there: “I’m sure I’ll either get ignored or flamed for this but what’s with all the pro- Mac stuff at the moment? It seems as though everyone ? I use it every day and I admit I don’t like it much either but I don’t think it’s that bad that I’d jump to using or recommending a Mac instead. Perhaps it’s because of the tiresome arguments from people like this.

So here’s my answer. Note despite what I said above about the argument really being between operating systems these days I’ve looked at Macs as a hardware and software combination in this article pitted against regular PCs running Windows. Do you agree/disagree with the points here?

Tell me why — but make sure your points are solidly argued and make sure you read the whole article before flaming me. There’s an important bit right at the very bottom. Reliable sleep mode. The killer feature of every Mac which can’t be underestimated (and you don’t realise how important it is until you own a Mac) is OS X’s 1. Windows PCs have just never had this. Reliability on Windows is hit and miss and it’s nowhere near instant. As a result most people are in the habit of shutting down their PC totally — or worse leaving them on 2.

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The difference between Mac and Windows in this respect is the difference between broadband and dialup internet. Back in the 9. 0s many people couldn’t see the point of paying extra for an always- on internet service as “it only takes a minute to connect using the dialup. Boot time shouldn’t be such a pivotal issue if suspend and resume worked well.

Mac users probably reboot their Mac on average about once a month — and often only to install an OS update. Which leads to my second point. Extremely fast boot times.

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Rebooting a Windows PC can be such a painful experience that you really procrastinate doing it. Unless you’re running on the highest spec hardware Vista can take minutes to start up. Mac OS X starts up from a cold boot in about 2. Mac. Book Pro. As another journalist contributing to the discussion observed this is not a faked boot speed where the operating system maker has rushed to get the login window on screen but delayed loading the rest of the OS.

It’s a genuine boot- to- usable- desktop time. Apple uses good quality parts. Aside from the operating system Mac hardware is usually good quality. Apple’s fit and finish doesn’t generally bend and creak like the plastic panels on many PC laptops; Apple’s keyboards are high quality; Apple selects good quality parts like very good LCD panels for its screens. You can essentially buy a Mac product sight- unseen and know you’ll be happy with the quality of the display whereas PC laptops are a huge grab bag ranging from horrendous dim rubbish to spectacular. Less blinking lights. Apple doesn’t festoon its hardware with blinking lights and inconveniently placed wireless on/off buttons headphone jacks etc.

PC manufacturers are starting to understand this and are producing increasingly clean designs (The HP 2. PC notebooks. When I’m using my laptop in a dark room at night I don’t want five bright purple and orange status lights blinking away at me. And when I’m using the laptop propped up on my legs on the sofa I don’t want to be constantly accidentally turning off the Wi.

Fi. I don’t want the headphone jack mounted on the front of the notebook because when I plug the headphones in the jack will be bumping in to my body if I’ve got the notebook propped up on my knees lying on the sofa. This lack of basic design refinement can make PC notebooks annoying to use for the entire lifespan of the unit (and it’s not always something you can .

OS X + Windows is better than just Windows. Ignoring Linux for a second on a Mac I can legitimately run OS X and Windows (natively or under virtualisation). On a PC I can only legitimately run Windows. It means I can use OS X for everything but if there’s the occasional application for Windows I need to use (specialised company application; MS Access; mobile phone firmware upgrader utilities) I can easily do use Windows. Another of my colleagues said she’s found a good use for OS X’s Spaces virtual desktop feature — OS X on one desktop and Windows on another desktop. Of course you can always pause a virtual machine too which means having Windows on- call when you need it doesn’t need to be chewing up CPU time in the background.

Easier to troubleshoot Macs. It’s usually pretty easy to figure out what’s going wrong with a Mac. There are three applications that help you and are all in one place and easy to find in the Applications/Utilities folder: It’s very rare that you can’t get a decent hint of where a system problem lies from those three apps. On Windows similar apps are available in the system but they’re more scattered and immeasurably more difficult for the average user to find. A culture of good quality community software. There’s a culture of very good quality freeware/shareware with excellent user interfaces on Mac — probably a result of Apple leading by example in user- interface design and shareware authors emulating this. The average Mac user could get away with only purchasing Microsoft Office and using freeware/shareware and Apple provided software for everything else.

On Windows the signal to noise ratio in freeware/shareware is extremely high. There’s so much junk software out there; it can be hard to find a tool that’s good quality. Some examples of exceptionally good shareware which I don’t think there’s an equivalently good Windows alternative for (taking into account both the software capabilities - and- the front- end GUI): 8.

More useful apps out of the box. Every Mac comes with some very useful apps that don’t come on Windows. But remember the majority of computer users are not power users.

Neat and contained system settings. Apple is very neat with its OS config settings. In Windows there’s many many places you can change system- wide settings — the registry add/remove programs the hardware manager the services manager network connections control panel etc. On a Mac the OS config settings are basically all in the control panel (with a few exceptions — notably the default browser can only be changed through Apple’s own Safari browser — evil.)It makes both using a Mac and supporting other people using Macs much easier. One specific example: it is overcomplicated to guide a user to editing the TCP/IP settings for a particular network adaptor on Windows but it’s one of the most common things you have to do to resolve network issues. But accessing network adaptors is a cinch on Mac OS X.

Apple doesn’t load the system up with crap. Oh sure Apple festoons its OS with hooks into online services designed to get you to spend money. But on the whole Apple’s festooning with vendor- specific services is much less intrusive than on Windows.- image- Just about every (brand name) PC sold comes loaded up with junk that keeps popping up at you reminding you your six month trial is about to run out and some apps are deliberately difficult to uninstall. Macs come with i. Photo (linked to with Apple’s book/photo printing service) Mobile. Me (stays out of your way unless you specifically activate it) i.

Tunes (to purchase stuff through the i. Tunes store) and so on. Basically Apple doesn’t try to force its way into your wallet like PCs tend to — Apple takes a carrot approach with some genuinely useful services rather than a stick (“your PC is our advertising billboard cough up buddy”). Of course this isn’t a problem with Windows itself per se but it is inextricably married to the Windows user experience for most people. Tonnes of small reasons make Mac OS X better. There are a large number of very small reasons a Mac is great to work on: every version of OS X has sophisticated screenshot capability built in.

CMD+4 provides a selector marquee. CMD+4+Spacebar takes just one window. CMD+3 takes the whole screen. You can set the format of the screenshot file and where Mac OS saves it.

The inbuilt image viewing app is powerful — it can view PDF and open/export to most other image formats; you can crop resize rotate adjust colour balance etc. Expose lets you quickly see all your open windows or your desktop or just the windows of your current app. Way better than ALT+Tab (which Macs also have) or Flip 3. D (which Macs thankfully don’t have.)The Dock is much more efficient to use than the Windows start menu and taskbar — the icon opens an app or returns to it if it’s already open. It doesn’t become crowded when you have lots of windows open. Target disk mode allows you to boot a Mac into a mode where the whole machine acts like an external hard drive. Plug it to another Mac using Firewire and you have the easiest way in the world to do a system- to- system drive mirror.

Windows simply doesn’t have this. Still no need for additional security software. On a Mac you don’t have to run additional security software which therefore doesn’t slow down the computer doesn’t cause problems and you don’t have to shell out for an annual subscription for it.

This is an enormously contentious point. Some people will argue black and blue that you need to be a good citizen in the world and make sure you’re scanning for Windows viruses on your Mac email in case you accidentally forward on a virus sent from one Windows user to you to another Windows user. My opinion is: if Fords have a problem with their wheels falling off that’s never going to be resolved I’m not going to drive my Holden slowly on every road just because a Ford might find its wheels falling off at any time.

And what’s with Microsoft selling One. Care anti- virus? It has decided to make money off selling a fix to a problem in its original product (Windows). That’s just offensive. Apple seems largely to be lameness free. On the whole Apple seems to come up with far fewer lame ideas that were non- starters to begin with.

Microsoft on the other hand is the master of lame ideas. For example Sideshow in Vista.

Ultimate Troubleshooting Guide for Office 2. Installation Problems. I’ve been installing Office 2. I’ve ran into quite a few problems along the way. From annoying messages like “Sorry we ran into a problem” and “Something went wrong” to slow downloads, hanging at certain percentages during the install, it’s been typical Microsoft problems all along the way. If you’ve been trying to install Office 2. Windows 8 or Windows 7 and you’re running into issues, I’m going to try and give you as many possible solutions as I could find.

If you run into a different issue not mentioned here, feel free to post a comment and let us know. It’s also worth noting that you can’t install Office 2. Windows Vista or Windows XP, it’s just not possible. You’ll get an error message like: This is not a valid Win. We are sorry, you couldn’t install your Office product because you don’t have a modern Windows operating system. You need Microsoft windows 7 (or newer) to install this productor.

The procedure entry point K3. Get. Process. Image. File. Name. W could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNERL3. Now let’s talk about some of the problems that can occur when installing Office 2. Windows 7 and Windows 8. Fix “Something Went Wrong” Office 2.

You might get this error if a first installation stalled and you ended up starting a second installation over the first one. You might also get this error if the computer restarted for some reason before the installation was finished. In this case, you should go to the Control Panel, click on Microsoft Office 2.

Microsoft Office 3. Change. Depending on your version of Office installed, you should either see an option called Repair or Online Repair. If you have Office 3. Online Repair and then the Repair option. If, for some reason, this fails or you don’t see Office 2. Control Panel, you can try to download the Office 2.

Microsoft Fix it. First, though, you have to run the Program Install and Uninstall Torubleshooter, which you can run from here: http: //support. Program. Once you have run this program, then you can run the Fix it for uninstalling Office all remnants of Office 2. Also, at the bottom of that article, there are steps to manually remove Office 2. It’s quite a few steps, but hopefully you won’t have to get to that stage. Once you’ve run the two tools above, go ahead and restart and then try to install Office 2.

Office 2. 01. 3 Setup Hangs at Different Percentages. The next problem I ran into a lot was the setup just hanging at various points. The first thing to try is to simply restart the computer. Sometimes when Windows boots back up, the installation will continue or you can restart the installation and it’ll work. If not, then read on. Stops between 8. 0% and 9. If the setup stops between 8.

Print Spooler Service. In order to fix this, you have to stop the print spooler service, finish the install and then restart it after the installation is complete. In Windows 7, go to Start, Run and type in services. In Windows 8, open the Charms bar and type services. In the Services console, find Print Spooler, right click on it and choose Stop.

Now go ahead and try to install Office 2. If you don’t get stuck, then you can go back to Services.

Print Spooler and click on Start. The reason for this is apparently due to HP printers conflicting with the Office install. Makes no sense, but there you have it. Stops at 9. 4%If the install stops at 9. And yes, it’s right at 9. No idea why, but it will require a forced reboot. If the install stops at some other percentage other than the ones mentioned above, you only option then is to try the steps mentioned above: Office repair and the Fix it for uninstalling Office 2.

Integrated. Office. Another error message you might get while installing Office 2. Windows cannot find . Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. Luckily, this one is a pretty easy fix.

You can download the Microsoft Fix it solution to delete some keys in the registry: http: //support. If you needed to do this manually, you would need to open regedit as an Administrator and then delete the following two keys: HKEY.

Once you have run the Fix it solution or deleted the keys manually, try to install Office again. Can’t Verify the Signature Error. If you had to download Office 2.

Office 3. 65, you might get the error below when trying to run the executable: “We’re sorry, but we can’t verify the signature of files required to install your Office product.”Here there are a couple of odd solutions that seem to have nothing to do with the error message. Firstly, try a wired connection instead of a wireless connection.

Then re- download the installation files and try it again. Secondly, you can try to clear the temporary Internet files from Internet Explorer. To do it quickly, just download the Fix it solution from Microsoft. This will clear the temporary Internet files for you. Lastly, you can try to actually rename the installation file you downloaded. For example, if it has a number in brackets like .

There are a couple of things you can try. Firstly, go to http: //account. If you are, go ahead and log out. Then try installing Office again. If that doesn’t work, you can try to clear your cookies and Internet History. To do this, open IE and go to Tools, Internet Options, click on the General tab, then click on Delete under Browsing History.

Then make sure you uncheck the Preserve Favorites Data box and check Cookies and website data, History and Temporary Internet files. Restart the browser and then give the install another go. Lastly, if none of that works, you can try opening an In. Private Browsing session in IE and then trying to run the install program from inside that session. Click on the gear icon, click on Safety and then click on In. Private Browsing. Reset Task Scheduler.

During the Office 2. Task Scheduler. If something goes wrong here, then it might prevent Office 2. You can reset task scheduler by opening a command prompt as Administrator and then typing net start schedule. This will ensure that Task Scheduler is running.

Then open task scheduler in Windows 7 by going to Start and typing in task scheduler in the box. In Windows 8, bring up the search charm and type in Schedule Tasks. This will open the Task Scheduler Library. Expand it and click on Microsoft and then Office. Go ahead and delete any tasks that start with “Office”.

In my case, I had three tasks. Other Office 2. 01. Install Troubleshooting Tips.

Those are the majority of major issues you’ll run into when installing Office 2. Office 3. 65, but there are some other troubleshooting steps you can take in case nothing above worked for you. Disable any anti- virus program, especially if the install has to be downloaded. If the install keeps stalling, etc, an anti- virus or firewall program could be the culprit. Reset Internet Explorer settings. This is a more last- ditch effort if you can’t get anything else to work. Reset IE 1. 0 – http: //windows.

Reset IE 9 – http: //windows. Reset IE 8 – http: //windows. Run system file checker to verify all protected system files and make sure they are the correct versions. You can open a command prompt and type in sfc /scannow. Create a new Windows administrator profile if you’re’ running on Windows 7. If something is wrong with your current profile, it could be causing the problems when installing Office 2.

Try a hardwired connection instead of a wireless connection. That’s about it! Hopefully, one of the solutions above fixed your Office 2. If not, post a comment here and we’ll try to help you out.