Mac U. Is There For You

9 Jul, 2006 at 2:43pm ET Article published in Tech

A man in Illinois has formed a nonprofit group to help new Mac users make the switch from Windows-based PCs.

“You could consider our group as a Macintosh University,” said Barry Crawshaw, a director and Web master. “We have the novice to the most-experienced user. We have high school students all the way up to senior citizens. Our group has some people just figuring out the on/off switch.”

If you are too stupid to figure out the on/off switch you might be better off parking your dumb butt on the couch and watching TV instead of trying to learn [i]any[/i] computer system.

Besides, if Macs are so easy to use, why would anyone need group therapy to help them learn? Not to mention day-long “boot camps” to figure out how to make a movie.

Source: ECT News Network

Comments

9 Jul 2006 ~ 5:15pm jhenry Some people are just morons...

My mom still cannot figure out how to add an email account to Outlook Express, and she's on her fifth computer...

If Windows and it's software is so great, why does John Scherer (CEO and Founder of Video Professor TM), have a job?
9 Jul 2006 ~ 5:21pm RWB Meh, idiots everywhere. And I get to speak with them daily. One might say they are the reason I have a job, and I enjoy it. But I'd give it upin a heartbeat if it meant less STUPID USERS out there.

My favorite people are the Mac folks, generally speaking if they have a problem it's on our end, unless they are being dumb. But I love it when they call in immediately telling me, "I have a MAC... it works EVERYWHERE ELSE BUT HERE!".... it's great when it's becuase the cable is unplugged.
9 Jul 2006 ~ 11:29pm Leonardo

If Windows and it's software is so great, why does John Scherer (CEO and Founder of Video Professor TM), have a job?

Fair enough question, but no one was making claims of Windows superiority in this thread. We were just rather curious as to why Mac would need a "University" when Apple OSes supposedly were simpler and more intuitive.

As far as morons (let's just use the term computer inept), I have been amazed at the number of people who've used computers for year and didn't know that you could put files anywhere other than the desktop....or, very, very daring, in "My Documents."
10 Jul 2006 ~ 7:44am airbornflght

Leonardo wrote:

I have been amazed at the number of people who've used computers for year and didn't know that you could put files anywhere other than the desktop....or, very, very daring, in "My Documents."

My mom and dad are a living, breathing example of that, my dad didnt know that you could make folders, and my mom thinks that if you put links/folders on the desktop that it will slow the computer to a halt. I tell her that she know enough to be dangerous, which in the computer world, isnt much. ALthough, I let her go on in her glory of thinking she know all and sees all.
10 Jul 2006 ~ 11:53am Sledgehammer70 Poor old people the drugs they did in high school are haunting them....

See kids this is why we don't do drugs. They make it so you can't find the on/off switch to a computer.
10 Jul 2006 ~ 1:29pm profdlp

Sledgehammer70 wrote:

Poor old people the drugs they did in high school are haunting them....

See kids this is why we don't do drugs. They make it so you can't find the on/off switch to a computer.

Guess who is responsible for the latest S-M Byte.
10 Jul 2006 ~ 1:32pm Sledgehammer70

profdlp wrote:

Guess who is responsible for the latest S-M Byte.

Your Fired
10 Jul 2006 ~ 1:39pm profdlp You can't fire me - slaves have to be sold.
10 Jul 2006 ~ 7:12pm airbornflght

profdlp wrote:

You can't fire me - slaves have to be sold.

/me sells

[News Anchor Voice]
This just in,

It appears, that Steve, aka profdlp, has been sold to Donald Trump through some lucrative deal.:Pwned:
10 Jul 2006 ~ 7:59pm profdlp

I hope he doesn't make me rinse out his toupee for him every night...
10 Jul 2006 ~ 8:50pm airbornflght

profdlp wrote:

I hope he doesn't make me rinse out his toupee for him every night...

Which one?