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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 398882" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p>My wife used a PC for years, and then for six more months after I got my first Mac. After expressing all of the frustrations that usually accompany Windows PCs, I finally convinced her that we should get her a Mac. I was getting tired of supporting her. She's not a technical person, she uses a computer to create art and the usual internet stuff.</p><p></p><p>I parked her in front of her new Mac Mini, showed her a few things that differed between the PC and Mac, showed her where everything was, a few concepts that were unique to the Mac as opposed to her old PC. Transferred her data over, set some things up (mundane stuff, like iTunes, her pictures, etc.), stood back, and waited, ready for the flurry of questions and tutorials.</p><p></p><p>Two weeks went by with no mention of her computer. At first I thought she wasn't using it. So I ask her how things are going with the new Mac, any questions...she says "Oh things are great! It's so intuitive and better designed than Windows. I can find where everything is, get to where I need, email, everything's fine."</p><p></p><p>I think it was a couple of months before she had to ask me <em>anything</em> about how to do something on Mac OS, and I couldn't tell you today what it was.</p><p></p><p>Now we both have Macbooks and she happily goes on with hers doing all the things people use computer for (chatting on the net, email, web, online finance, buying stuff from Amazon.com, getting new music from iTunes) all without any assistance from me. She never wants to go back to Windows.</p><p></p><p>The same thing happened with her brother. She showed him her computer, he went out and bought a Macbook. I offered my services again if he had any questions. He asked me perhaps three things at most. A couple of months have gone by and I was visiting him over the weekend. I ask him how things are going with the Macbook (after all, we were kind of responsible for him investing US$1500, might as well make sure I wasn't responsible for sending him into some kind of hades.) He says "oh, it's great man! I've even made a few DVD's with that iMovie." I'm all "Whoa, even I don't really know how to do that, and I work with computers for a living. You mean DVDs that you can play on your entertainment center DVD player? Not just on a computer?" "Yep, it's great...takes awhile, but it's easy."</p><p></p><p>Apple: 2</p><p>Vista: 0</p><p>Windows XP: -2</p><p></p><p>So that's my experience with quasi novice years long Windows users switching to Mac. Two of them, both wins, so to speak. As for myself? I work with all kinds of computers and different operating systems. The Great Apple Experiment of 2005 I started has been an unqualified success. I may have to work with and use Windows to make a living, but for my own personal computer I'm not going back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 398882, member: 9385"] My wife used a PC for years, and then for six more months after I got my first Mac. After expressing all of the frustrations that usually accompany Windows PCs, I finally convinced her that we should get her a Mac. I was getting tired of supporting her. She's not a technical person, she uses a computer to create art and the usual internet stuff. I parked her in front of her new Mac Mini, showed her a few things that differed between the PC and Mac, showed her where everything was, a few concepts that were unique to the Mac as opposed to her old PC. Transferred her data over, set some things up (mundane stuff, like iTunes, her pictures, etc.), stood back, and waited, ready for the flurry of questions and tutorials. Two weeks went by with no mention of her computer. At first I thought she wasn't using it. So I ask her how things are going with the new Mac, any questions...she says "Oh things are great! It's so intuitive and better designed than Windows. I can find where everything is, get to where I need, email, everything's fine." I think it was a couple of months before she had to ask me [I]anything[/I] about how to do something on Mac OS, and I couldn't tell you today what it was. Now we both have Macbooks and she happily goes on with hers doing all the things people use computer for (chatting on the net, email, web, online finance, buying stuff from Amazon.com, getting new music from iTunes) all without any assistance from me. She never wants to go back to Windows. The same thing happened with her brother. She showed him her computer, he went out and bought a Macbook. I offered my services again if he had any questions. He asked me perhaps three things at most. A couple of months have gone by and I was visiting him over the weekend. I ask him how things are going with the Macbook (after all, we were kind of responsible for him investing US$1500, might as well make sure I wasn't responsible for sending him into some kind of hades.) He says "oh, it's great man! I've even made a few DVD's with that iMovie." I'm all "Whoa, even I don't really know how to do that, and I work with computers for a living. You mean DVDs that you can play on your entertainment center DVD player? Not just on a computer?" "Yep, it's great...takes awhile, but it's easy." Apple: 2 Vista: 0 Windows XP: -2 So that's my experience with quasi novice years long Windows users switching to Mac. Two of them, both wins, so to speak. As for myself? I work with all kinds of computers and different operating systems. The Great Apple Experiment of 2005 I started has been an unqualified success. I may have to work with and use Windows to make a living, but for my own personal computer I'm not going back. [/QUOTE]
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