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Originally posted by Zombie9920:
They love ranting about how easy a Mac is to use(because they do not have to manually install hardware drivers). Ease of use actually used to be a big part of Maccie arguments. If a person wants something just because it is easy to use then they are a certified simpleton(kinda like all of the AOL zombies who fear learning how to use a real browser and a real ISP).
Mac peoiple are way away from AOL zombies and simpletons. I think you misinterpret the Mac arguemnt. The whole ease of use thing revolves around actual functionality of the inteface. Windows pretends to be easy to use and functional but fails miserably.
The fact is that even in the oldest macs the PC people loved talking crap about how not techy they were. I wonder how winowzes proported ease of use sold it so weill ?
But if you knew anything about 'em, you could get just as techy with an old system 6 machine as with any Windoze box. The point was that the system fuctions fine without the need for the tech. They were computers built so that everyone (note: EVERYONE) could use them, and no mater how you like branding people simpoltons for this desire, you would not have a computer on your desk if it wasent for it.
No one is born a computer wizard (no matter how much you'd like to think you were) Im sure you were introduced to these wonderful machines on a Comodor, Tandy, Amiga or even an old Apple, did you jump right in and go nuts over all the things you could tweak on your motherboard, or what you could change in various .ini files. Of course not! You probably creamed your jeans the first time you booted up Test Drive, and thats all you did with the darnd thing, despite your parents buying you Algeblaster and other edu-tainment crap (semi-Autobigraphical)
. By your deffinition I suppose you were a simpolton at that time because you couldent get past Dir or Cd commands.
Im sure you find instaling drivers manualy and configuring BAT files and diging thrugh the registry a whole lot of fun. But often, I like to tell my computer what I want it to do and it will do it, my way, and not force me to deconstruct it in order to make it functional.
And with OSX that techy argument turns in to a pile of crap. Macs have UNIX now, what the hell does windows have, DOS? And guess what, the system is still as simple to use and intuative as it ever was, something windowz wishes.
There is a large programming comunity on the MacOS, there is a large server comunity, even an open source comunity (of course windows wouldent allow this), there are Mac haker sites, there are mac everything. And alot of these are pre-OSX, heck some go as far back as OS 7.0. Fine grupe of simpoltons that don't know how to be techy there, huh?
Get real, I can get techy with a cordless phone and berate you as a simpleton because you don't know how to hardwire a 100 watt AMP to the thing and get it to pump out 4 channel high quality stereo sound.
Sometimes people only need things to do, what they want them to do, at the time they are doing it. This doesn't make them simpletons.
