tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775763.post4712702566460594115..comments2024-02-26T14:45:34.869+09:00Comments on cricketomanac: Mac or Windows …Brittohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530401910807265036noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775763.post-79205086557239439852009-11-06T23:48:05.243+09:002009-11-06T23:48:05.243+09:00If you were trying a Mac in 2000, what you used is...If you were trying a Mac in 2000, what you used is essentially unrelated to what we have today. Apple unveiled OSX in 2001, replacing what was essentially a toy OS with something with meaty power.<br /><br />My wife is not techno-phobic, but not technical at all, but switching her to a Mac this summer was an absolute breeze. It's just intuitive to work with, so after explaining a few basic changes, she just went with the flow and figured it out along the way. She *loved* it. It just worked.<br /><br />Bolstered by that success, I eventually moved her folks to a Mac as well. Her dad once turned his new digital camera off three times in a row thinking that the power button was the shutter button, so that'll give you a sense of their lack of any geek gene, but they too had no troubles just working with it.<br /><br />I figure that someone like you would have the worst time switching, because unlike casual users like my wife and inlaws, you know a lot of tricks and shortcuts and nooks and crannies and idiosyncrasies of things -- a lot of domain knowledge that doesn't transfer -- so it would take much longer to come up to the same level of proficiency with any new system.<br /><br />BTW, there are third-party drivers for OSX. Printers, for example, have their own drivers.Jeffrey Friedlhttp://regex.info/blog/noreply@blogger.com