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

[Ken Hansen]

Yea! Pete is back! ;^)

I knew I could drag you out of the woodwork...

For the record, note I indicated my dislike of the Mac platformw was based on nothing more than my ignorance, and that a dozen end-users could get along with only a drive-by support contract was an indication of something...

By way of comparison - I direct your attention to the Land Rover forums on Usenet - they fall into two decidedly differnet camps:

	Group A: "It gets hotter than a MoFo in the
	drivers seat of my 1958 Series II - what can
	I do?"

	Group B: "The dealer wants $800 for a 30K mile
	check-up on my 2000 Series II Discovery - why
	is it so expensive?"

Group A is how I think of the members of the Rescue list - Group B is how I tend to view typical Mac users.

Group A has determined that they will drive this car no matter what (much like folks that spend $10 for a null modem adapter or $35 for a video adapter to allow them to use a PC monitor to fire up a Sun IPC which, itself, is worth about $10).

Group B Just Drives. That the cost of scheduled service is their biggest problem indicates they have *solved* all the other problems, and that is all that is left to complain about. That is a good thing.

When it comes to cars, I am in Group B (I Just Drive), but when it comes to computers, I am absolutely in Group A.

I guess you could say there are "users" and "abusers" ;^)

Ken
(See - isn't this more fun tha extoling the virtues of Perl!? ;^P )


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter L. Wargo [mailto:pwargo at basenji.com]
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 5:00 PM
To: 'geeks at sunhelp.org'
Subject: RE: [geeks] Trade U30 for G3 mac B&W?


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 


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