I guess we all have a story like this to tell. A friend is in the process of buying his first computer. His daughter is warning him off Macs: his son in law can get him a Windows REALLY cheap but the only argument I can offer is my support on how to work on a Mac. It is working! He needs a friend to explain simple things. That is my forte: simple things!! But then I have a community of wizards called WAMUG for the more complex things.
I think we will win! Lloyd >> >> >> 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. > > 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.
