[dba-Tech] google sheets vs excel

Fri May 10 12:08:13 CDT 2019

Agreed - Mac hardware is awesome! If only they'd allow for upgrading the older models to the latest OS many would still be up to date and used as such. Some of my print shops have old OS9 jelly beans running yet. I have an eMac that runs just fine and I keep it around just because it stills has OS9 capabilities and Photoshop on it. My Macbook is fairly old but works fine. Only worry is that eventually it will be counted out for the latest OS upgrade.

Some PCs work forever too. Have an Optiplex (original XP rig) that's from 2003. Runs Windows 10 now. I also have a Win98 PC from 1999. I start it up every now and then for kicks, and then turn it off. I had a client using a Windows 3.0 PC as a machine controller. Didn't know she had it. Non connected and, obviously never cleaned. It died last year from overheating. It was like a clothes dryer's lint filter in there.

But low end consumer PCs? For the most crap.

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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] google sheets vs excel

I had a 2007 mbp that I used continuously until 2017. Yes I did upgrade to an ssd around 2013 when I bought an iMac. Still for all work not at my desk I was working with my mbp through the end of 2017 when the screen ribbon finally gave out. I had windows VMs running in there and it hummed along just fine for most major tasks. Except for gaming after 2010 this little machine served me well. Along those same lines my iMac is continuously reliable and is my main home machine. I do have a windows machine but it’s too old to even run windows 10 anymore. I had a nuc but even that failed after 2 years.  As with everything ymmv but it’s been my experience that generally the hardware on the macs is extremely reliable.

On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 11:49 AM Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi All:
>
> My SiL uses Apple consistently. They wear out as all computer products do.
> His actual work is with Linux, he just uses the Apple terminal 
> emulator so when he says he works on an Apple, technically he is 
> correct but practical he is not. ;-)
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: fhtapia at gmail.com
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" < 
> dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 7:41:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] google sheets vs excel
>
> hardly... Apple marketing is "It just Werks" and the fact is... it 
> does ;) lol -Francisco <http://twitter.com/seecoolguy>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 3:31 PM John Bartow via dba-Tech < 
> dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> wrote:
>
> > For personal use. Does that make it better? What I see is 
> > continually incompetent Microsoft marketing and much more competent Google marketing.
> > FI - There was a recent security info article concerning Gmail and 
> > O365mail being targeted for attacks against their IMAP protocols. 
> > There
> was
> > reportedly a 44% success rate.
> >
> > I never once heard the article repeated with Gmail involved, it was
> always
> > mentioning O365. And while Gmail users had to use IMAP in the past, 
> > honestly WTF do you have IMAP turned on with O365?! Every device in 
> > the last decade supports Exchange protocol. MS Marketing = crap. 
> > Google
> fanboy
> > marketing = Mac fanboy marketing of old.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of 
> > fhtapia at gmail.com
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2019 3:50 PM
> > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues < 
> > dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] google sheets vs excel
> >
> > Change is hard for lots of people and the one glaring thing that 
> > google sheets has over Microsoft is the offer of free use.  I think 
> > you still
> need
> > a license last time I checked to use excel 365 online. There was a 
> > free trial but that’s hardly the same thing as google’s Free offering.
> >
> > Still I rather use what’s available and I’m still and excel guy 
> > because work pays for 365. For all my personal stuff I use apple’s 
> > numbers app or Google’s sheets.
> >
> > Simple enough everywhere.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 1:21 PM Peter Brawley <
> peter.brawley at earthlink.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 5/8/2019 0:24, John Bartow via dba-Tech wrote:
> > > > Office 365 works on every device I've ever tried it on even a
> > > Chromebook. So it has little to do with Windows anymore. :-D
> > > >
> > > > I use both. I'm not an Excel fanboy but I think the statement is 
> > > > just
> > > more fanboy marketing.
> > >
> > > So preferring googlesheets indicates fanboyism, preferring excel 
> > > doesn't, odd.
> > >
> > > PB
> > >
> > > -----
> > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf 
> > > > Of
> > > Peter Brawley
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2019 6:51 PM
> > > > To: John Bartow via dba-Tech <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> > > > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] google sheets vs excel
> > > >
> > > > On 5/7/2019 13:49, John Bartow via dba-Tech wrote:
> > > >> Googleheads
> > > > WindowsHeads
> > > >
> > > > PB
> > > >
> > > > -----
> > > >
> > > >> -----Original Message-----
> > > >> From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> On 
> > > >> Behalf Of
> > > Peter Brawley
> > > >> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2019 1:25 PM
> > > >> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <
> > > dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> > > >> Subject: [dba-Tech] google sheets vs excel
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > https://qz.com/1611622/google-sheets-is-now-better-than-microsoft-
> > > exce
> > > l-for-common-tasks/
> > > >>
> > > >> PB
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