Then you might like this story. I do a little local internet paper for a politically active Republican couple down the street. He is 81 and she is 79. She was a reporter and does the writing, I do the tech and graphic stuff. Couple weeks ago they bought an HP printer. Immediately, when turning on their Windows machine, they got a prompt that a program was installing itself. It would take 15 minutes to get out of that thing. The problem was HP sent two disks--one for Windows 7 and one for XP. But HP made a mistake and put Windows 7 on both disks. They didn't know what the problem was and it took me a while to figure out (they hadn't mentioned the new printer software). Their son, who is out of state, had been watching them struggle with that and other problems. He told them to ask me what Mac to buy. I sent them a link to an Imac at Amazon. They sent it to him and five days later an Imac arrived on their doorstep. Gave them a few lessons and in a week they could do more on the Imac than they had learned in years to do on a Windows machine.
Excellent.
When it come to computers, I am dumber than a stump... and I like it that way. ;>)
I am 61 and have had more computers than I care to remember. I had problems with each of them and I found it very frustrating. I still have two PC’s and a laptop, but I seldom bother to light them up.
About 2 years ago I broke down and bought a 27” iMac OS X, version 10.5.8 with memory of 4GB 800 MHz DDR2 5DRAM and Processor of 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. I also bought the gizmo (Time Capsule) that can backup the entire machine automatically.
The only problem I have had was with the mouse... I went through 3 of them and Apple didn’t hesitate to replace them. I now have a new and improved mouse that they gave me and it’s seems to be bullet proof.
No shutdowns... no constant fixes and required upgrades, no viruses, no hanging screens... no, no, no. I flat love this computer and I doubt that I will ever use anything else. iMac has been a very good experience... I have no regrets.