NW-Bound
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My wife has a long-time friend who is computer-averse, who had used PC at work but refused to have her own at home. She said that these PCs were buggy and temperamental, and that she would rather avoid all aggravations and not deal with them.
It is sad, and I couldn't help thinking that if she had a more user-friendly Mac that her experience would have been a happier one. Note that I have never used a Mac, and stick with PCs mainly because they are used in the business world.
And here's some more data points. A friend of mine, a well-paid engineer, has a side business of "fixing" home PCs. He started out helping his in-laws, then the cousins, and the word spread, and people came beating a path to his door. At first, he did it for free (he's a hard-core geek!) because he thought it was fun. Soon, as he had too much business though he only accepted jobs from friends of friends and not strangers, he had to charge something to pay for his beers while he babysat weekend-long sessions of Windows re-installation, etc...
He said he saw quite a few PCs that got infected with virus, and the owners stopped using them soon after buying them, judging from the date and the amount of files and data on their hard drives. What was sad was that the poor owner, not knowing anyone to fix it, just put the PC in the closet, and by the time it got to my friend, the PC was already so old and obsolete it was not worthwhile to resurrect it.
He was doing this before the Geek Squad started, and still had some "business" the last time I talked to him.
It is sad, and I couldn't help thinking that if she had a more user-friendly Mac that her experience would have been a happier one. Note that I have never used a Mac, and stick with PCs mainly because they are used in the business world.
And here's some more data points. A friend of mine, a well-paid engineer, has a side business of "fixing" home PCs. He started out helping his in-laws, then the cousins, and the word spread, and people came beating a path to his door. At first, he did it for free (he's a hard-core geek!) because he thought it was fun. Soon, as he had too much business though he only accepted jobs from friends of friends and not strangers, he had to charge something to pay for his beers while he babysat weekend-long sessions of Windows re-installation, etc...
He said he saw quite a few PCs that got infected with virus, and the owners stopped using them soon after buying them, judging from the date and the amount of files and data on their hard drives. What was sad was that the poor owner, not knowing anyone to fix it, just put the PC in the closet, and by the time it got to my friend, the PC was already so old and obsolete it was not worthwhile to resurrect it.
He was doing this before the Geek Squad started, and still had some "business" the last time I talked to him.
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