On 10/06/2005, at 7:13 PM, Jude wrote:
My mother (who is 85 years old) has decided that her old Windows
machine (that is so old it struggles with Windows 98) is getting too
old so she wants to upgrade. I took her to Digilife in Mt Hawthorn
this morning and now she is going to think about it. However my
brother has already told her that a Mac would be much too difficult
for her, "It's a specialist machine".
I just recently told my Mother that I would only help her buy a new
computer (after the last three Windows nightmares she brought home) if
it was a Mac. I've been using and supporting Macs since the beginning,
and I'm the family geek. She's seen my macs working and knows they are
reliable and packed with cool programs and features. She said OK.
The next time I rang her, she said her friends tell her that buying a
Mac is a bad idea, that nothing will work anymore, she won't be able
to do anything or swap files with them and she will lose all her data.
What I don't understand is what possible reason non Mac users have in
scaring people into not getting a Mac.
Because they cannot bear to think of somebody having something
better than themselves .
Then they would have to change to keep up with the " Jone's "
Bob
BTW. She's still getting a Mac. And I can't wait for the day that an
email comes in without "this stupid computer is .. or .. I can't get
the computer to .." as the first couple of words.
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