[geeks] Help me convert a computer illiterate to an iMac!

[Kevin]

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Just this week my mother decided to switch from Win32 back to
Mac after XP ate a folder full of data in a move process.  I
was able to get the data back but she had finally had enough. 
She had used Macs since 86 or so and loved them, but
complained that the job market required her to work with
Windows.  She now has switch from Visual Basic to programming
web apps, with LAMP stuff mostly, so Win32 is no longer
necessary.

She is letting me put Linux on her Vaio and she is buying
dual G4 on Tuesday.  I was happy to hear it.

Tell your mom that she might lose large amounts of random data
if XP gets flaky during a file move operation (this
particular move wasn't even going between two different
partitions, just folder to folder).

/KRM

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:46:00 -0500
Michael Schiller <schiller at agrijag.com> wrote:

> ime now, but have always gotten some excuse usually
> amounting to she doesn't use the computer enough to warrant
> spending the money. Yesterday she called me to tell me she
> bought a new computer, an $1800.00 Sony Vaio !!!! I told her
> to pack it up, and return it ASAP, and get an iMac. She says
> that she only understands Windows, and the Mac would confuse
> her, and she wouldn't be able to understand it. She didn't
> say, but I'm sure the new machine has WinXP on it, which has
> to be quite a difference from Win95. I'm also pretty sure
> that she hasn't listened to me yet, so what I need is this:


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