Quick - someone send him a laptop with Vista! There is no other cure <g>.
John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 > > Greetings all! > > A client of mine has come down with GotToHaveMacItis recently, > and purchased > several Mac laptops and an iMac 24" machine for himself ro use. This > gentleman is about to sell all of his automobile dealerships to a large, > publicly traded company, and hence about to get a substantial windfall > coming hi$ way. He is not about to retire, but he decided he did not want > to fight with Windows any longer. So he jumped into the World Of > Mac. Then > he called me to get some help in setting up his WiFi (secured signal of > course) for his new laptops the other week. With some guidance from Ed I > managed to get his amchines connected and running very nicely, and got a > chance to dabble a bit myself. > > Well, everything was fine until he had me come over to set up the iMac 24. > Dag Blast him! I now have GotToHaveMacItis also! What a sweet piece of > beautifully carved machinery, and I have really come to appreciate the OS > and apps. The difference is that with this neck/spinal disease I > managed to > become afflicted with my income has been down substantially this > year, and I > am engaged in what promises to be a long drawn out fight with my personal > disability insurance carrier (they acknowledge there is a medical > condition, > and are reviewing all my tax and business data from the past 4 years - > taking their sweet time about it also). So it may be a while before I get > one of them, and certainly not until I handle some other > outstanding matters > with an associate from a few years ago. > > I still maintain I will never escape from the Windows OS as all auto > manufacturers require their dealers to have Windows for factory > communications purposes. But, I can see myself gravitating more > toward Ed's > position from years ago where he told me, "For my own stuff I use a Mac, > when I get paid I will use Windows." Only after 2 days of > playing with the > iMac did I begin to get a sense of what he was telling me. Imagine being > able to surf the web fearlessly, with no antivirus or antispyware > running in > the background (and no annual subscription renewal fees), and > plugging in a > printer and it just flat out works. No goofy installation > hoops-of-fire to > leap through. Such a smooth interface it is almost mentally liquid. The > display is incredible, no other way to describe it - yet that word > (incredible)seems inadequate unto itself after having gazed into > the display > over the past 2 days. > > Okay, I must stop this craziness. For what it is worth I plan to > get myself > into one of these Intel based iMac machines in 2008, somehow or > another. I > will get lots of RAM, and run XP as a guest OS, and use Office Mac for my > Outlook replacement. Gawd, I am losing my mind! Damn those > folks at Apple! > To my colleagues I say, "Beware! If you cast your eyes upon one of these > machines be prepared to lose your way and find yourself sliding helplessly > into the Apple Vortex!" _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
