Comments on: Dvorak Declares Apple “All Right”. Here’s My Own “Choose Apple” Story.

By: Valeria Maltoni

Valeria Maltoni — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:53:35 +0000

Another potential tech support person for my new purchase ;-) Yes, I am going to switch from PC to Mac in the coming weeks after asking advice at my blog. I was amazed at the number of happy Mac users among my readership.

By: Maria

Maria — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:05:45 +0000

Tim, that’s the one.

By: Tim Lee

Tim Lee — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:52:28 +0000

Dvorak’s Inside Track to the Mac

By: franky

franky — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:21:44 +0000

I think Dvorak hopes to become one of four/five.

On a total different note, I the eternal Windows defender, have decided a Mac will soon be part of my setup. Too bored of Vista, I have the impression older PCs with XP were spiffier than anything I got today with Vista.

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:03:18 +0000

I’m afraid I did the other thing: let my mother buy a PC. She had a Mac for years — since the early 90s — and I had recommended it. I’ve been a Mac person since 1989 and write books about the darn things, so I guess you might call me an “expert,” whatever that is. I became her one-person technical support team. She didn’t have much trouble — not when the computer was relatively new, anyway. But as it aged — 5 years and counting — she starting having trouble running new software. But she didn’t want to upgrade the machine or buy a new one. When she started whining about how her friends could run software that she couldn’t — PC software, of course — and hinted that she was thinking of buying a PC, I told her it was a good idea and let her do it.

I know, I can be pretty mean sometimes.

Well, although I have a PC and write about Windows software, I’m not the family expert. That would be my brother. So when my mother started having problems with her PC, she’d bother HIM.

Long story short: she never got rid of the Mac and continues to use it, side by side with the PC. She periodically laments that she bought the PC, saying that she should have bought a new Mac instead.

Learn from your mistakes, right?

Related trivia question here: What was the name of the book that John Dvorak supposedly co-authored about the Mac back in 1991? (I know the answer to this one because I ghost-wrote 4 chapters.)

By: Jim Courtney

Jim Courtney — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:49:57 +0000

I can only concur that the Mac relieves me of responsibility for “family tech support”. My daughter and one of my sons have both had MacBooks for just over a year and they just “keep-on-using” them.

My daugthter was loaned use of a Windows PC this past week when she did not have access to her Mac and it gave her the BSOD simply when running a browser based application.

‘Nuf said.