Cotty: Well, before I set aside joking it must be said -- After your post we'll see whether there's a "Mac police" or not ...
I agree with you. Thanks for coming out and admitting that Macs are machines and therefore can break down just like ordinary mortals' PCs do. For nearly a year I've been having a whole lot of trouble with my desktop PC (a homebuilt system that just, as we say in the States, "has issues" and in particular has not done well with Windows XP.) I told my other half I was tempted by all the Apple ads about how Macs are easy, how "they work like they're supposed to" and all this. 'Round about then my mother arrived for a visit and brought her Compaq Notebook (running Win XP) with her. Now my mother is a very intelligent woman, but SHE doesn't think she is, so anything "technical" or "complicated" sends her running for help. However, HER computer works "like it's supposed to." In fact, on Christmas Day I plugged one end of a cable into the digital camera she'd just received as a present and plugged the other end of the cable into her notebook and the pictures were downloaded. This was a Compaq notebook running Windows XP -- no need for an Apple notebook to "save Christmas"! (Ad reference, and true story.) Around then I concluded my problems did not indicate that Win XP is useless. I've bought a Compaq notebook running XP. And "you know what?" (Apple ad quote) Everything those earnest-looking people standing in front of a white background say in the Apple TV spots about their Macs also applies to my notebook. "It works like a dream."
