Re: Mac Mini hard as *** to use.

In article <mr-885B2D.20331703102005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sandman <mr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> In article <1h3tuvo.1km19jm1gsrne8N%me4@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
> me4@xxxxxxxxxxx (Wayne Stuart) wrote:
>
> > > After the installer left, you find out that if you move the CD player
> > > from
> > > its position on the table, it won't even work any more. When you get
> > > tired
> > > of this, you call the uninstaller guy, which asks if you want to have
> > > chips removed that you've never heard of and don't know if they are form
> > > inside the CD player or not.
> >
> > Yeah, but this is a point actually. For those making the migration to
> > Mac, or stone cold newbies, the installation of apps on the Mac is not
> > initially intuitive.
>
> *NOTHING* with regards to computers is intuitive in any way. One thing may be
> *more* intuitive than another, but nothing is flat out intuitive since
> intuitive means you understand how something works without prior experience.

No, that's "instinctive."

"Intuitive" means that, having knowledge of the basic rules of interaction, you
make the right guesses about how something should behave.

> For someone that has never ever seen a computer in his entire life, a Mac
> won't
> make much sense. The learning curve might be smaller, though.
>
> Concepts like "installing", "application" and "hard drive" are totally
> counter-intuitive. There is nothing about those concept that is intuitive.
> They
> are very very abstract concepts for Joe Newbie.
>
> <snip>

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