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My current one doesn't even HAVE a connection for a Parallel cable. What good would a Parallel port on my "Winbox" be?

And additionally, I've not even used a floppy for years, even while I did own a Wintel machine (oh, yeah, my NEW "Wintel machine" is an Intel iMac, and of course, it has no floppy).

Parallel ports may define YOUR "Winbox", but they certainly don't define mine, and haven't since XP added USB. I certainly didn't miss one when I started using my iMac.

In addition, MOST modern printers ALL use USB rather than Parallel. Parallel ports are on their way out (or already out). You must own an old decrepit dot-matrix printer you now can't use. I guess you'll have to keep using all those OLD, decrepit, "Winboxes" to use it.

I don't believe I've even owned a serial mouse since the early 90's. Mice were about the only thing PC owners used their serial ports for anyway. When PS-2 (and USB) connectors started to become prevelant, all those hard-to-use serial mice wound up in boxes gathering dust.

And I haven't even seen a serial printer since then, either. Serial ports are mostly an anachronism in modern PCs. I don't know why motherboard manufacturers keep putting them on their motherboards. They're a waste of money and space, if you ask me, as well as taking up useful Interrupts in Windows.

They may define YOUR "Winbox", but they certainly don't define mine (and most modern PCs, by the way). Yours must be really old, George.

PS-2 connectors have not been needed since Microsoft released USB, and manufacturers started producing USB keyboards and mice (several years ago, by the way).

As I said, they may define YOURS, George, but they certainly don't define mine. Most modern PCs are going to PCI-Express, and only keep PCI around for legacy cards (that means old, out-of-date crap gathering dust).

Too bad there was no room for a few extra PCI-Express slots in mine, and they were easy to access. Yes, George, my "Winbox" IS an Intel iMac 17". Don't like it? Tough. MY "Winbox", whether Apple or its syphophants like it or not, was defined by APPLE, not Microsoft.

I bet I can hold my breath longer than you can. Anyway, while an EFI parbreastion is required to install XP using Boot Camp buttistant, it is NOT necessary (and in fact, is NOT WANTED) when installing Vista, or to dual-boot into either OS X or Vista, so it certainly isn't missed at the present time. Maybe it will be once Microsoft adds EFI to Vista. But that is still at least a year away. And reinstalling OS X if needed is a very easy matter. One of the pluses of OS X, by the way.

"Easiest to use" and "best" are pretty much a matter of "personal taste", George. You should know this by now.

While I found OS X "easy to use", the rest of it I didn't care for. So once Apple released Boot Camp Beta, I opted for XP, which is extremely easy to use, once one gets used to it. So would you, if you used it exclusively.

Personally, I believe Apple's in-house programmers' and Apple Developers' secret definitions of "easy to use" is actually "tailored for brain-dead idiots".

As the Aussies say, "every cat has it's own rat". There is just no accounting for taste, is there, George?

Advice added to my store of other "advice" I've built up over the years, some of which is useful, some of which is not. I stored yours under "esoteric and mostly useless".

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