On 28/10/2004, at 1:19 PM, Paul Kitchener wrote:
>> So are there many others out there experiencing this sort of thing?
The most recent switching friend I have is making the jump for
precisely this reason - as a bit of a technophobe, my continuing
insistence over the last few years that a mac would be far easier for
her to cope with came to no avail. 'If windows is popular, but it's
frustrating then the frustration must be my problem since I'm the
inexperienced one here" - and it kinda makes sense - to the layman
surely the most popular computer (lots of people use it) shouldn't be
inherently frustrating.
But a couple of weeks ago I get a phone call and my friend has finally
had enough. Malware, spyware, adware, viruses and worms had reduced
her computer to a $1200 paperweight. Another friend (who,
incidentally sold her the machine!) was getting tired of coming around
EVERY day to clean out the crap.
Fortunately, last christmas we gave her son an old g3 iMac (barely
running osx) which had been sitting in his bedroom largely for games.
I went around, plugged it into her adsl modem and bingo - the little
mac knows where it's at and she's up and away. ("How come it took 2
hours to set up the adsl on the PC?" she asks)
Then a few days later another call:
"Do you think I'll need an imac with a superdrive or just the combo?"
After years of evangelical rants on deaf ears, I think maybe windows
might be about to prove our point far more convincingly than mac
advocates have ever been able to...?
Stew
