I think PLUG is an anomaly. It seems most people display snippety arrogance rather than help. On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Josef Lowder wrote: > In response to the subject problem, someone wrote: > > Buy a Mac? ;) > > That is obviously not helpful. > > I did buy a macbook 15" a few weeks ago and found it to be weird and > totally unsatisfactory for many, many reasons ... beyond its > over-priced, under-valued, worse than M$ proprietary-ness. > > So after a couple of weeks of trying to make some sense out its > incredibly non-intuitive arbitrariness, I sold it and I certainly will > not be going down that confusing road again. > > macs may be fine for music and videos and just playing around, but I > could not get even simple serious work tasks to work efficiently or > reasonably. Disabling most "normal" CTRL key functions and > substituting that silly mac "X" key in such an anatomically > inconvenient location ... and disallowing simple window resizing from > any side or corner are just two of many dozens of examples. > > To each his/her own. > > A few mac-types that I encountered during my brief foray into mac-land > tried to be helpful; however, from far too many others, I found that > one is more likely to experience snippety arrogance rather than > constructive help. > > At least from most plug friends, one usually gets constructive help. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: