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Posted 2007-04-11, 04:04 PM in reply to Demosthenes's post "Question for Lenny"
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I'm not a Mac user, no. Sorry to disappoint.

Though I've been playing around with my Grandad's Mac recently. One of the little laptops.

It does a few things that a PC definitely doesn't do - for example, I'd never heard of Bluetooth built into a computer until I used the Mac, and I thought the fact that I can connect my phone to it via Bluetooth, and send things back and forth between the two was kinda quaint.

Another thing that was nice is the ports - they're all magnetic!

Apart from that, using it takes some getting used to. You can't tap the touchpad to select something, you've always got to use the mouse. There's always a toolbar across the top of the screen that changes when you open a different program. When you open program's then they appear on the dock, and it can be quite frustrating to close them. Also, to find anything, whether it be a document or an application, you can't just hit Start > Programs > Find the application, you've got use a thing called "Finder" which is like "My Computer" on a PC. I guess you can make icons on the desktop to quickly go to the programs, but I haven't tried it. Nor do I know whether you can change the desktop picture/colour - at the moment his is the default grey.

I know someone with a Mac who is always making it out to be a God, and bad-mouthing Windows, who also gets really frustrated with quite a few Maccy things - "Oh, Windows is stupid, you can't see me on my camera because Windows isn't compatible", or "Windows is stupid - I've got this great Mac program but you can't use it on Windows because Windows sucks". He recently installed XP using BootCamp so he could play games, which I thought was rather amusing.
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