OK, I don't take much persuading. <rolls eyes>
Here's my post into the silence of the old MacFixit Lounge, yesterday. Then someone helpful came along and told me to come here.
Whatever happened to MacFixit? I went away for a bit as I had no queries and when I came back recently, it's all changed here. Where's Jon (New York Jon, Jchuzi. Where's Tacit? Both those guys helped me so much in the past - freely, at length, sympathetically, knowledgeably. WONDERFUL guys.
Have they been driven away? Shame!
MrMacFixit's a great guy and I'm really really glad to see him politely and helpfully posting - Hiya!
The Mac Lounge used to be FULL of threads, where have they all gone? It was a really buzzy, fun, place to be. ???
Should we try to recreate some of the good old ones? I'll start.
How long have you been on Macs?/What was your first Mac?
Me: since 1986 and the first one was this:
http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/photos/Apple_MacSE_System_s2.jpg (I see it's now in a museum.......)
I can't remember the first OS at that time. Was it system 6?
Since then I've worked my way through system 7, 8, 9 and the migration to OS X was scary. Jchuzi helped me so much at that time and I'll never forget it.
Here's the thing about Macs. People who use them are nicer, friendlier, more ready with advice without being patronising or condescending. Macs don't need all that anti-virus firewall and registry stuff which bedevil PC owners. This enrages PC owners and makes them even more patronising. I have never encountered a SINGLE THING which can be done on a PC, and which cannot be done on a Mac.
Case in point: recently I've bought some new accessories. In both cases the "customer service" said (snottily) that they are "only compatible with PCs". NOT TRUE. Flim Flam. Ignorance. Scaremongering. With a good Mac (like this iMac I'm writing on right now) those so-called PC-compatible disks will eventually yield whatever it is you want - OR, better, you can get what you want from the internet, free.
And it's not just new iMacs which perform so well either. I have a years-old G4 running OS9, still in use every day, performing brilliantly. I've only ever had two problems with it, both quickly solveable with the great documentation on Apple Support.
Apple Macs are smarter, more intuitive, really fast to boot up and down, forgiving of just about any user mistakes, and pretty to look at as well. When I got this job 14 years ago, the first thing I did was to convert the office network from clunky old PCs to Apple Macs. Much howling ensued but now.......they wouldn't work with anything else.
I've even got a Mac-specific ISP, and they're great too!
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