Congratulations goes out to my dad, the newest Mac owner in my family and the most recent to see the light about cruddy windows. He already had a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, so he went with the Mac Mini, the most affordable way to get a Mac. It’s just a tiny box that has a lot of USB ports on the back so you can plug in your monitor and accessories, and viola: new Mac.
The new iMac’s are sexier, but the Mac mini is no slouch and allows for more versatility. It’s going to take him a little while to get used to how easy and comfortably a Mac runs, but a steep learning curve can be fun, too, if he looks at it like an adventure, where new computing tricks lay just around the corner.
He was fed up with all the garbage that windows is: “Program not responding”, “Program has performed an illegal operation”, “End this program now?”, “Your virus software is out of date”, “A new software patch is available.” And on and on. He was ready for something that just works. He wanted to find a computer that could run windows and Apple software on the same machine. He found it, in the new Mac mini.
Intrigued? Learn how easy it is to switch from windows to a new Mac and why, here. The Apple store is here.
I’m loving this new Mac! With my work for Katie, I needed something dependable, something fast (folks on the other end of the customer care call need prompt service.), and something easily grasp. I can print my receipts in PDF format because Safari has that as an option every time I go to print. The old pc served me well for a number of years but the issues with most pc were beginning to sting (and stink). With Neo Office (a shareware freebie), I can handle Word documents and the speed of it all is like lightning! Woohoo!!
ummm…your calling a computer sexy?
Yes.
Sad, isn’t it?