Are you considering an Apple Mac/iMac? ...



Friend of mine (a Windoze/blows heat-seeker freak) sent me email. He bought a Mini. Here is what he said about it (and what I said back):


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On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, XXXXXXXXXXX wrote:

Thanks for the scoop. I am ever frustrated with the cookies and spyware
attached to internet usage. DK if you recall but we had this discussion
maybe 5 years ago. I argued that malevolent viruses which were the
scare of the day were nothing in comparison to the spyware being
attached and buried into the system registry. I have always felt that
was the more insidious event. Ta-Da. Now it is the news of the day.
Hardly anyone ever talks about viruses, and this is the better path on
which to worry.

Me,... I'm migrating back to books (actually reading them) and watching VCR
tapes bought at thrift stores. Maybe someday just migrate totally off the
'net. Also, spending more time with ham radio (no CPUs, no CPU viruses!).

For what it's worth dept: I purchased an Apple Mini for the family for
Christmas. With the new Leopard OS and all that snot.

And, you coulda got into Linux 5-6 years ago and really learn some of this
stuff?

There are no
instructions, but links to apple for help questions and to view videos.
I have so far resisted this surrender.

Ahah....Neo, The MATRIX HAS YOU !!!!

Something as simple as ejecting
a cd from the drive.

In early Linuxes you had to unmount the CDROM drive BEFORE you eject. Later,
they do automount, autodismounts.

FYI, IBM's OS/2 also has this "problem"--disk in drive, then you have to
unmount it first before eject.

How do you like them "apples"?

Took me over an hour to figure it out. The cd
icon appears on the desktop with the ID of the CD written in the icon.
You have to take the icon and drag it into the trashcan to get the
stupid tray to open up.

That really is stupid....and all these apple freaks think apple is such hot
shit.

Maybe I am dense, but how does one consider
this to be intuitive????

Because Steve Jobs says so?

That is about the very last thing I would
consider to do to open a CD tray. Of course, like the monkey at the
infinite typewriter, sooner or later I happened to do this, and wal-ah.
One thing for sure, I know how the PC plebs feel about maneuvering
through their computer, but I NEVER thought I would learn the lesson
from using the all intuitive Apple!!! I told my kids 13 & 14 y/o. They
better figure this thing out, because I won't. We'll see who is
motivated and clever enough to do it.

.

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