BWHAHAHA! My brother gave my 73 yo mom a new Dell computer for her birthday

[Atman]

She called me, quite upset, didn't want to hurt his feelings, but..."I really wanted a new Mac."

She's got an obsolete candy iMac that she can barely check e-mail on anymore. She never, ever uses credit, but decided she was going to use her one credit card to finally purchase a brand new iMac. Then my brother calls, telling her to be sure she's home for the delivery of her new computer. She actually called him back and said thanks, but no thanks. They were a bit stunned, to be sure, but offered to put the $800 for the Dell toward a new iMac.

I'm happy for her. She already has been using the Mac OS for nearly ten years, and my brother (Republican, very wealthy, btw) wanted her to switch to Windows. She thumped him. I love it!

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[cbayer]

1. I could never switch over and would also have to politely decline any gift

of a Windows OS based computer. I had to recently use someone's vaio to help them with bookkeeping and it was torture to me.

Good for your mom!

[Touchdown]

2. That's good! At least they love her enough to respect her wants.

I had a friend a few years back that always asked about his laptop, and what this would do, and that isn't working, and how can he get this to do that. I had no answer because I didn't know windows very much. He seemed to know windows even less.

So when it came time for him to get a new one, he probed me for info, and I suggested he get a Macbook, gave him the whole worth the money and not a pain in the ass spiel everybody else does. We had been friends for about 6 years. So he takes the advice of a diner cook instead, and buys a new windows book, and then starts to probe me for answers on how to configure this, and load his old stuff that, and I was insulted. If he had no intention of even looking at a Mac, then don't fucking bother me with questions about windows computers!

We're not friends anymore. Not because of that, but because he called me a pedophile for taking professional year book pictures of high school seniors... oh, and he called me an anti-semite because I want my foreskin back.:eyes:

[comtec]

3. I would never, E V E R give someone over 50 anything BUT a Mac

and I'm a Windows/Linux guy.

But lets be honest, Mac is the best way to go for low-skilled users.

My company was about advising people what best to go with, and that was almost always a Mac.
The unbearable religion that the cult of apple has aside, they are good, easy to use computers.
I only ever have resented how Apple abandons it's users on "older" systems like the now-ignored PowerPC users,
and the insane idea that there are no other computers better than a mac (sorry I REALLY hate the cult of mac)

And second, is that apple is arrogant assholes - even when their os RUNS ON PC HARDWARE, they refuse to "allow" non-apple installs.

Reality is, whatever helps you be the most productive at whatever you do, is the best computer.

And quite honestly for new users, that is often the Mac OS.

[Touchdown]

4. In defense of the Apple cult and our unbearableness...

We wouldn't be so obnoxious if the Apple bashers would actually bother to use one so they know what they're talking about. Most of them never even touched a Mac. So they're idiocy is magnified by their hostility.

As far as religions go, The Linux users are getting pretty smug and evangelical themselves. Maybe they're on to something with their system as well. Maybe it's not cultism, but a real belief that once you have a Mac (or a Linux system, it looks like) nobody should have to put up with a shitty computer. You got problems? You don't have to put up with them.

One of the real reasons why we're hated is that the windows users hate to be reminded of their poor choices. We don't even have to say anything. Just our existence makes them resentful.

[cbayer]

6. ..

:thumbsup:

[supernova]

5. Wow, I would never get such

and expensive gift for someone without bothering to check their preferences.