Koolau
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Okay, so this will be a rant. Granting that I'm a dinosaur when it comes to computers and granted that I have only one internet connection (i.e., not a WIFI hook up - and don't want one):
My cable modem has a "phone" type line coming out of it which i have always been able to "stick" into my other two Apple computers. My eldest (the lap top) shows signs of dying (in fact, I had the local Apple store take a look. They took the dead and swollen carcass of the battery out for me and they indicated it needed to have it's brains blown out and then put back in - sorry for the technical jargon there.) So, instead I decided to look at the new computers. I found a nice macbook at about a grand. I told them I don't have WIFI and that I use an ether net cable to hook it up. No problem, they said. So I brought the new computer home and low and behold, the ether net cable does not fit. (I suppose I should have known - the thing is about as thick as pencil.) Still, I trusted them to steer me right since I told them I knew nothing about getting computers to work - except to get into the internet and maybe make some spread sheets.
So, only slightly irate, I went back to the store.
"Well, dummy (not quite, but that's what it felt like) you use a WIFI to connect to the internet." I told them the story of dealing with one of their other people who said it "should work." After talking to a couple of "experts." They said "Well, we used to have an adapter that connects your ethernet to a USB port - but we don't make them anymore." By now I was becoming truly irate. It finally occurred to them that "maybe" they still have an old adapter in the "back room." Indeed, they had two, so I bought both for when the first one breaks.
Okay, why not move into the 21st century and get WIFI? One reason is that I move around on the mainland and purchase internet for a month (or three) at a time. How many WIFI's do I want to buy, or store or carry or have to get working under the influence of jet lag.?
In actual fact, I only wasted one afternoon of my life on this, but I'm much less enthusiastic about recommending Apple products to folks now. Not so much because they don't excel, but I'm not so sure about the employees I dealt with. I've found that I just want stuff to work right out of the box and I don't want to have to "learn" new stuff to make things work that I used to be able to do.
Since YMMV, this ends the rant.
My cable modem has a "phone" type line coming out of it which i have always been able to "stick" into my other two Apple computers. My eldest (the lap top) shows signs of dying (in fact, I had the local Apple store take a look. They took the dead and swollen carcass of the battery out for me and they indicated it needed to have it's brains blown out and then put back in - sorry for the technical jargon there.) So, instead I decided to look at the new computers. I found a nice macbook at about a grand. I told them I don't have WIFI and that I use an ether net cable to hook it up. No problem, they said. So I brought the new computer home and low and behold, the ether net cable does not fit. (I suppose I should have known - the thing is about as thick as pencil.) Still, I trusted them to steer me right since I told them I knew nothing about getting computers to work - except to get into the internet and maybe make some spread sheets.
So, only slightly irate, I went back to the store.
"Well, dummy (not quite, but that's what it felt like) you use a WIFI to connect to the internet." I told them the story of dealing with one of their other people who said it "should work." After talking to a couple of "experts." They said "Well, we used to have an adapter that connects your ethernet to a USB port - but we don't make them anymore." By now I was becoming truly irate. It finally occurred to them that "maybe" they still have an old adapter in the "back room." Indeed, they had two, so I bought both for when the first one breaks.
Okay, why not move into the 21st century and get WIFI? One reason is that I move around on the mainland and purchase internet for a month (or three) at a time. How many WIFI's do I want to buy, or store or carry or have to get working under the influence of jet lag.?
In actual fact, I only wasted one afternoon of my life on this, but I'm much less enthusiastic about recommending Apple products to folks now. Not so much because they don't excel, but I'm not so sure about the employees I dealt with. I've found that I just want stuff to work right out of the box and I don't want to have to "learn" new stuff to make things work that I used to be able to do.
Since YMMV, this ends the rant.