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bjhurley wrote:
The Mac's approach is to apply the Windows "safely remove hardware" eject option to everything that really should be ejected before it is removed. For whatever reason, Windows allows you to remove SD cards without ejecting them first, which seems risky, especially when using built-in SD card readers that don't have an activity light. You can easily think your SD card is finished transferring one way or the other and yank it out before it's done. Could that corrupt data? Possibly. But the Mac trains you to eject SD cards as if they were any other kind of external volume (hard disk, SSD, CD-ROM, DVD, etc.). That seems a much safer approach to me.
As for Excel: just be warned that the Mac versions of Word, Excel, etc. are not the same as the Windows versions; everything is compatible but there are differences in the user interfaces and not all things are where you expect to find them and I don't think the Mac versions have all the functionality of the Windows versions. Just a few weeks ago I remember I tried to do something on the Mac version of Word that I do in Windows and it literally wasn't possible; I had to go to my Windows laptop and work on the file there instead. But everything is compatible in the sense that you can seamlessly work on an Excel file on the Mac and then open the same file in the Windows version. There may be some limitations with respect to Visual Basic or macros on the Mac version. Office is one reason why I always keep a Windows machine, it just works better on Windows in my experience....Show more →
Okay, thanks.
As to SD card removal on PC (sans eject), I've always been very surefooted about delaying any removal until I was reasonably certain that no active operations should be going on ... owing to my recall of the Eject days.
Yeah, I kinda wondered about Excel and Mac. I don't know enough about how the PC vs. Mac thing works under the hood, such that it influences the programs. I do recall eons ago something about the Intel vs. AMD ... one being better for number crunching, the other being better for something else (dead brain cells, to what that really was).
If there really is an "under the hood" difference regarding how the hardware / software integration / application ... it kinda sounds like a number crunchin', creative could be destined for dual platforms ... or accept the concessions of one for the preference of the other.
For me, number crunching power doesn't require the same "mental flow", as creative work. Which kinda segues to my dialogue with the store ... regarding the myriad of functions / operations that can be setup as "less disruptive" to the creative process (in the old days, at least), more so than the PC. In that regard, it became the tool of choice ... then, the defacto standard, and now that the gap is smaller, there still remains some cross-platform issues. Thus, the "Mac is for creatives" ... well, that's about the best I've got so far, coupled with any hardware / software efficiency gains to given tasks.
How accurate that is / isn't ... idk, but it's kinda the summation of what I've come to understand over the last few weeks of exploration into the Mac realm. I'm open to revision, but I'm about to the place that if it hasn't been mentioned by this time, then there probably isn't that much more to mention on the "Mac vs. PC" or "Mac is for creatives" front.
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