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<blockquote data-quote="Lena's friend" data-source="post: 1691825" data-attributes="member: 353679"><p>Hi Tracy, and welcome. As it appears that you've been using Macs a while, I hope you're going to be supporting us older Mac users - those with earlier PPC (pre Intel) Macs that Apple don't seem to care about anymore.</p><p>They built a superior quality machine, that lasts and is reliable but was expensive, then seem bothered that people are still using them. At least that's the way it seems. </p><p></p><p>I suppose the fact that there are less of them about does mean that viruses and malwares aren't being written for them… it's not worth the bother for the ****heads and scammers. They like a bigger target… like Windows. Unfortunately, like the malwares and viruses, the latest versions of browsers etc. aren't being written to work with other than an Intel processor, and the earlier versions that do work aren't being supported (the exception being TenFour Fox, which gets regular upgrades but doesn't allow Flash to be used due to Flash's security concerns)</p><p></p><p>Sending a crash report to Apple doesn't seem to have any effect, and the only time I tried phoning the help line, the so called tech was about as much use as a lace condom. He simply suggested upgrading. I have to watch expenses… I certainly can't afford a new Mac. Besides, this one works fine for what I need 99% of the time, and is much more user friendly than PCs on the very rare occasions that I've tried using them.</p><p></p><p>Welcome, again… and try to remember us fans of earlier Macs forced to run Leopard and earlier OSXs.</p><p></p><p>Edited to add comment: I was amused to see that the robotcensor starred out part of a word, making it look like I'd written something offensive rather than what I actually put. I do hope this isn't a sign of the poor standard of the censoring programme on here. </p><p>I use another UK forum (but hosted by a US provider) and its users are forever being frustrated by perfectly good standard English words, that aren't ever used offensively and have no suitable replacement synonyms, being censored for asinine reasons… yet some very offensive insulting terms seem to slip past because the robot didn't understand them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lena's friend, post: 1691825, member: 353679"] Hi Tracy, and welcome. As it appears that you've been using Macs a while, I hope you're going to be supporting us older Mac users - those with earlier PPC (pre Intel) Macs that Apple don't seem to care about anymore. They built a superior quality machine, that lasts and is reliable but was expensive, then seem bothered that people are still using them. At least that's the way it seems. I suppose the fact that there are less of them about does mean that viruses and malwares aren't being written for them… it's not worth the bother for the ****heads and scammers. They like a bigger target… like Windows. Unfortunately, like the malwares and viruses, the latest versions of browsers etc. aren't being written to work with other than an Intel processor, and the earlier versions that do work aren't being supported (the exception being TenFour Fox, which gets regular upgrades but doesn't allow Flash to be used due to Flash's security concerns) Sending a crash report to Apple doesn't seem to have any effect, and the only time I tried phoning the help line, the so called tech was about as much use as a lace condom. He simply suggested upgrading. I have to watch expenses… I certainly can't afford a new Mac. Besides, this one works fine for what I need 99% of the time, and is much more user friendly than PCs on the very rare occasions that I've tried using them. Welcome, again… and try to remember us fans of earlier Macs forced to run Leopard and earlier OSXs. Edited to add comment: I was amused to see that the robotcensor starred out part of a word, making it look like I'd written something offensive rather than what I actually put. I do hope this isn't a sign of the poor standard of the censoring programme on here. I use another UK forum (but hosted by a US provider) and its users are forever being frustrated by perfectly good standard English words, that aren't ever used offensively and have no suitable replacement synonyms, being censored for asinine reasons… yet some very offensive insulting terms seem to slip past because the robot didn't understand them. [/QUOTE]
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