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The dealer had done all the prep work before I walked into the showroom.

Yeah -- and that's the point. He did the prep work AFTER YOU PURCHASED THE CAR but BEFORE YOU TOOK DELIVERY. That's precisely what I'm talking about. Get it through your head.

So educate her. Life is filled with all kinds of threats. And the best way to deal with those threats is through education. We, as a society, offer education to drive a car, learn about sexuality, handle firearms, protect yourself, etc. But God help you if you suggest that it might be a good idea to take a basic class in using a computer before you expose all of your private/confidential data to the world and/or incur the wrath of hacker vandals.

God doesn't need to help us MacAddicts. We are intelligent enough to know better than to buy things requiring a lot of upkeep. We buy our computers to use, like the rest of our appliances. We were among the first to use it for producing movies, like Star Wars, instead of a $150,000 Sparc station. We found ways to produce music with it, and transform video and audio, without being qualified with a degree...

In 1984, I bought a Mac, had a third party internal 5 meg hard drive installed, added a monitor, and a 9-pin printer. I took it to my home office, where I set it on a desk. I plugged the wires to match the icons (which later were color coded like so many PC's do these days), and turned it on. It worked, and within 30 minutes, I had loaded the provided MacWrite, MacPaint, MacDraw, and my purchased copy of MacDraft. I printed out a basic floorplan a few minutes later. I had visited an IBM store, and found that the price was about the same, by the time I bought AutoCad and the PC equipment. But, I would have spent 30 days in a classroom to learn how to use the AutoCad. I still don't know how to address that C > thing.

Soon after, I bought a program called Sticky Bears, and turned my 4 yr old daughter loose with the Mac. No problem...

I currently use a wireless Apple Network to link my G5 desktop machine, as well as a G4 PB, a G3PB, and assorted other Macs. I will soon add a G5 dual Server, to set up a new business site. All i need to know is how to plug it in, and click an icon!

I have used a home network, with included Apple sofware, almost from the beginning. I have had my computers converse with me, responding to verbal commands. Sure, PC's can do that...now. I did it before it got out of their mainframes...

I hooked up my new printer and it searched and found the drivers. Sure, the Windows program can do that ...now. We did it first.

I have a digital camcorder, a digital camera, and a flatbed scanner, and can hook them up and use them, without even telling the Mac. I then can integrate their outputs into a free Apple provided program. Sure, you can do that on your PC, now... but we did it first.

I burn DVD's and CD's with eased, and Wintel guys still are scratching their heads, and forcing third party software to work, with constant tweaking and crashing.

I am sure you love your PC. If you don't want to discuss Mac with relevance, rather than citing all the hypercritical PC tech crap, and expecting others to be overwhelmed with your prowess, you should find a Wintel thread to recite your mantras.

Oh yeah, did I mention we have the most stable Operating System? It saves us the money on virus/spyware software...

Here, on these Mac threads, folk post to others with like interests, to make us aware of new and good things.

Nobody wants to read your shi'ite! If you don't like Macs, that's your problem. You won't change any minds here. We know better!

Oh yeah, did I mention we have the most stable Operating System? It saves us all that time rebooting!

The dealer had done all the prep work before I walked into the showroom.

Yeah -- and that's the point. He did the prep work AFTER YOU PURCHASED THE CAR but BEFORE YOU TOOK DELIVERY. That's precisely what I'm talking about. Get it through your head.

Pardon me, Bush, but the car I bought was sitting on the lot... prepped and ready for a buyer BEFORE I PLUNKED DOWN ONE THIN DIME. I went in, made them an offer, wrote out a check, did the paperwork, took the keys and drove it off the lot. NO MECHANIC LOOKED AT THAT CAR BETWEEN THE TIME I WALKED ON THE LOT AND THE TIME I DROVE IT HOME! Get it through YOUR head.