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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Where the mac really wins
- Keywords: computers
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 19:32:20 GMT
- References: <92Dec06.084034.22132@acs.ucalgary.ca> <1992Dec6.192109.6920@infonode.ingr.com> <1fur2gINNql5@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
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- In article <1fur2gINNql5@hpscit.sc.hp.com> klui@corp.hp.com (Kenneth K.F. Lui) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec6.192109.6920@infonode.ingr.com> bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
- >> Ease of learning
- >>is most important to those with learning disabilities.
- >>
- >Ease of learning is important if one wants to spend his time
- >working on problems instead of learning to deal with a program's
- >interface. Learning about how computers work isn't the top
- >priority for a lot of users out there--if this weren't true, all
- >computers would use punched tape as computer commands.
-
- Oh great. And Mac users don't have to learn how to use it? Have you
- ever tried teaching someone to use the Mac over the phone? "Yeah.. you
- have to be in the finder. Click on the top right hand coner - yeah the
- top right corner - see that picture? Yeah now do you see the Finder?
- What? You don't see the finder????"
-
- I find Mac users need as much help as PC users most of the time.
-
- >>When I was in school, I preferred to use the macs in the computing
- >>center instead of the the PCs. That was because the boneheads
- >>at the computing center didn't know how to set up a PC because
- >>they were a bunch of snobbish mac gurus.
-
- At the beginning of the semester the Mac labs get more use than the
- PC labs, perhaps because the Macs look a little cuter and the mud
- and game players predominate. Later in the semester after people ac-
- tually start writing papers etc. you'll see the PC labs chock full
- and the Mac labs almost empty as people realize that the PCs actually
- let you get the work done without crashing because you forgot to
- reboot the computer first and someone left LPMUD running in the back-
- ground and will let you print without having to check the Print Moni-
- tor for constipation.
-
- >Actually, Mac gurus I know of wouldn't touch a PC with a 10'
- >pole.
-
- Yeah.. because they can't edit a simple text file so they feel
- intimidated.
-
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