[geeks] Trade U30 for G3 mac B&W?

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> Uhm, I belive "Technical Mac User" is an Oxymoron - so a forum to
> address the technical Mac community would be not so very entertaining
> as this group is, but that is just an opinion, not based on anything
> concrete... Now, that they can get by with occasional support is a

Oooooooh, them's fightin' words, buddy!  Especially to this ...ahem...
"non-technical" mac user... :-)

Hey, one reason you don't see as many tech questions is that the platform
is well-designed enough that my 72-year-old mother can add RAM, CPU
upgrades, etc.  Hell, my sister has never opened a computer in her life,
and she added RAM to her iMac..

Funny, with most dual-platform peripherals I buy, I see 4 pages of
instructions for a PC, and one paragrapch for Mac, which usually reads
something like "Plug it in."

Now, to continue my pointless rant, I was appalled when I saw what it
takes to uninstall AOL instant messager on a PC.  What the hell is this
HKEY_EMBED_CRAP_EIGHTEEN_LEVELS_DOWN stuff?  I just dragged it to the
trash. :-)

Wargo's purely subjective final comment: "Yes, perhaps the average Mac
user is less technical than a PC user.  That's because they actually get
to work on their computers, instead of always having to work *on*
their computers."  Hee, hee...

-Pete