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

[Michael Schiller]

Hi All.

for the last few years my mother has been running Win95 on an old 
266mhz Compaq she bought a few years ago (back when that WAS a fast 
machine). I've been trying to get her to replace it with an iMac for 
some time 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:

Can any of you give me some good reasons I can give her for returning 
the new Vaio and getting a 17" iMac instead? I've never used WinXP, and 
haven't used a PC that was faster than 400mhz (SunPCi), so I wonder if 
an 800mhz G4 would feel as fast as XP on  one of those newer PCs (I 
don't know the speed, but I would imagine it's close to 2ghz)

As many of you know, I just got one of the 17" iMacs, and I love it, 
but I'm just not sure what argument I should use to convince my mother 
that she'd be better off with the iMac than the PC.

Not related to trying to convince her, every time I see 'PC' describing 
a wintel machine I remember an old Amiga software PC emulator (I don't 
remember the name of the program) who's process name was "PylaCrap" Wow 
did they ever get it right!

-Mike
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