6502

I don't get why people think google Fi is a great deal. You can get 5 GB of high speed data (unlimited low speed) for $35 at Cricket (on a better network). This is $70 at Fi. The only advantage I see is you can travel international and stay on the plan without any extra charges.

My late 2012 iMac does the same thing with the green jagged bars on the side, quite annoying. Surprised Apple didn't catch this in testing.

anantksundaram said:

This man was beyond brilliant. He had the ability to see.

My favorite (sorry I don't have the source handy) is from the '80s when he was saying how one day all of our computers will be interconnected and digital information will be transferred between us with ease. Mind blowing.

roundaboutnow said:

6502 said:

I love Macs and have had one at home for 25+ year. But, I rely on Excel a lot at work and Excel just sucks on a Mac, and it's just not worth emulating it when I can just use a cheap W10 machine.

Are you at least using Mac Excel 2016 (with latest updates)? It's a lot closer to the Windows version than it used to be.

I consider myself fairly proficient on Excel, and find everything I need to do on the Mac version works well. But then, there are still plenty of advanced features that I don't use, so maybe this is where the comparison breaks down...

What are you doing on Excel that sucks on the Mac version?

I have used the lasted version of Excel for the Mac. I'm not saying it is unusable but it just doesn't have the fit and finish of the PC version. There's a lot of graphical glitches such as when cells are selected the cursor does not change appropriately. A lot of the keystrokes are different and I am used to and proficient with the PC ones. I constantly get the spinning beachball even for simple tasks. Multiprocessor support was only added recently. Many add-ins I use are not available for the Mac version. And finally, many of the power features such as Power Pivot and Power BI are not available on the mac.

macsince1988 said:

6502 said:

I love Macs and have had one at home for 25+ year. But, I rely on Excel a lot at work and Excel just sucks on a Mac, and it's just not worth emulating it when I can just use a cheap W10 machine.

Ummm, no.  Microsoft developed Excel for the Mac, and later ported it to Windows.  It is still a native application in MacOS and “emulating” is not required.  If you really have had a Mac for 25+ years, you would know that Excel on the Mac used to be much more advanced than the Windows version and in more recent years the updates have not always remained in sync.  Given the capabilities of Excel for Mac, you’d have to be doing some rather esoteric edge-case tasks in Excel in order for the Windows version to offer any advantage.

Yes, I know Excel was first developed for the Mac and then the PC, but last I checked it was 2018 and not 1986. Of course I know Excel is a native app on MacOS; I thought it was obvious that by "emulating" I meant running the windows version in emulation such as with VirtualBox or Parallels. I do more in Excel than just adding a few number, I wouldn't consider what I do esoteric edge-cases. Excel for Mac didn't even get multiprocessor support until this year, while it's had it on the PC for decades.

And yes, I have been using Macs for 25+ years. I saw my first Mac in 10th grade (1988, Mac Plus) and have since owned an LCII, PowerMax 180, PowerMac G5 and several iMacs (my first computer was an Apple II clone Laser128. I bought Apple stock in high school and again when the iPhone was announced and have kept it the whole time and have done quite well.