i'm new to MAC and want to continue using outlook and syncing to mypalm. Is this possible?

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Clive Huggan

Dear ma,

Here's a little triviality that you might be interested in, since you'll be
enjoying your new Mac for a long time:

"Mac" = abbreviation for "Macintosh", a variety of apple and species of
computer.

Hence "iMac" and "MacBook".

"MAC" = "Media Access Control", a long hexadecimal number that uniquely
identifies a communications device to a network. Actually I learnt that from
MVP John McGhie; it's about the limit of my understanding...

(I mention this because many people switching from Windows seem unaware of
the origin of the name, hence are confused about the upper/lower case.)

Cheers,

CH
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Daiya Mitchell

Clive said:
Dear ma,

Here's a little triviality that you might be interested in, since you'll be
enjoying your new Mac for a long time:
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while we're on trivialities--why "the Mac" vs. "Mac" vs. "Windows"?

I've said "I use a Mac" but never "I don't use the Windows".

And hey, mu86--Welcome!

Daiya
 
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Daiya Mitchell

Clive said:
On 22/12/07 1:42 PM, in article [email protected],



Same reason as "the PC"?

Hmm, why do we have the definite article here? (I know it's a great cause
for confusion to people who have to learn English as a second language).
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the applicable concept, I think, has something to do with a "strong or
weak proper name." Maybe. More here:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004861.html

Who talks about "the PC"?

I say "a PC" but never "the PC". However, the hardware (tangible
thing)/software (intangible thing) distinction is clearly important in
this issue, and the conflation of both under Mac is probably the key.

But "[welcome to] the Mac" is intangible, isn't it?
Umm,
I use a Mac I use a PC
On the Mac On the PC
In OSX In Windows
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I'm not buying that. You use OS X on a Mac. You use Windows on a PC. I
don't see that OS X/Windows requires a preposition.

:)
Daiya
 
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