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Joshua Kors has no idea how to use a Mac, returns it

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What a freaking crybaby!
 
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I think the word "Tool" applies here...
 
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The word 'trying' pops into my mind. I dont know why. Just does I guess.
 
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Sounds like a rant from someone with little knowledge of a product before purchase.
 
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In Soviet Russia, iMac > you

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Was this person even trying? Doesn't even seem like they did any research to begin with before they took the plunge.
 

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I liked the part you can't network a Mac to a Pc to move/copy files!! I do that almost daily here.

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That guy is an air head. Enough said.

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It's a guy who gets read time on the Huffington Post for God's sake... nevermind. I'll shut up. Sounds less like a review and more like he's making a bad attempt at stand up comedy. This guy sounds like a flaky chick.
 
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I had to quit reading that article half-way through.

Obviously, this guy had no idea what he was talking about, and is as computer illiterate as my great-grandpa. If you don't know computers, you shouldn't be writing a tech article.
 
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The comments make it better. :)
 
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lol

That was a good read. Thanks for the laughs...

He can't be for real, can he?
 
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I felt a bit like that for a few days after I switched to Mac. Part of my adjustment was to just believe that it all could be so much simpler. And to use the Mac as a Mac without loading on all or mostly PC software and operating systems.
 

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I liked the part you can't network a Mac to a Pc to move/copy files!! I do that almost daily here.

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Haha, that was the first thing that really irked me about the "review."

I knew that, unlike a PC, I wouldn't be able to connect one computer to another and transfer over my documents. Instead I had to use my external hard drive, like a makeshift canoe, to migrate my articles, music and videos from one computer to the next. Loading and unloading docs to my external drive, I smacked into another iMac annoyance: unlike a PC, the Mac wouldn't let me move files to and from my external drive, only copy them. I realized I'd have to keep a sharp memory of which files I'd copied over -- or move every document twice and see which files it asked me to replace.
There are so many things wrong with that bit that it hurts my head. It genuinely sounds as if he didn't want to like the Mac, found something that didn't work without any effort on his part, and ranted.
 
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I made it as far as "couldn't move my files" and couldn't read any more.

His biggest mistake was not coming to these forums for help with all his little "issues".
It was like a collection of the most common and easiest to solve switcher questions. What a tool!

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Ahhh ... I needed that!
Thanks McYukon :D
 
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Ah, well, you cant please everybody

Where's his Ipswitch FTP - he couldn't even be bothered to find Cyberduck on the net

No word processor, since when did every PC come with a free copy of MS Office?

Why didn't he just let an Apple store transfer all his stuff

The guy's got a masters degree, but obviously never lean't problem solving, just grade A whining

Must say, funny though

Bit like a potential switcher at work, whom I had to explain the concept of Time Machine and back-ups. "What do you mean, the hard drive could fail?, I thought macs dont break"

I tried to explain that Macs are not made out of unicorn horns and pixie dust, and I may have put her off buying one, but maybe - at least - I won't have to become her Mac support guy, if she doesn't get back-ups, then email, iTunes, user accounts and the Internet are going to be a big headache. ;-)
 
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I think the most frustrating thing to me about this, is that somebody who might potentially switch will read this information and leave it at that. Won't take the chance. Of course, that's their loss, and I'm certainly not a shareholder of apple, but I absolutely HATE when people make their decisions, be it elections, purchases, or which OS to use, based on misinformation.
 
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And this joke is a investigative reporter ..... Whoever he is working for sure has to get rid of him after this article .... He obviously didnt do ANY investigating at all lol
 

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