begin quoting Todd Walton as of Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:49:14PM -0800: [snip] > thoughts went to the Mac Mini. It's fairly cheap, Apple is reliable, > and there'd be much less support to be doing, I'd bet. Plus, I could > still set up an SSH server fairly easily I would think. I'm really looking into getting my parents on a Mac Mini.
I think Mail.app is about where they'd like to be. I think the eye candy would be soothing. I think the fast user switching would help when grandkids come to visit (set up an account for each grandkid!) to help reduce accidental damage. > I still have two reservations: > > 2) I loathe commercialistic consumer product tie-in (as most people > do, of course). When you download QuickTime for Windows, they push > iTunes, and guide you into using the iTunes enabled QuickTime. Do > they do the same with Mac OS users? How commercialistic is the Mac > OS? (I've heard Mandrake is similar.) And what the f*** is > "iLife"??? Is it for people who don't have "realLife"? Mostly there's nag-ware. The free quicktime often asks you if you want to upgrade (worth it, I'm told), but you can't really complain about nagware. > b) The last time I used the Mac OS they called it "System 7". However > much less support there'd be with the Mac OS, it's likely I wouldn't > know how to help with whatever little help he needed. OS X is a *nix. It has a shell. And then get a cheap one for yourself. (Wonder if used eMacs will start going for dirt-cheap now?) Or is this not a remote-support situation? -Stewart "1200 miles away and one telephone line" Stremler -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
