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darkpuppet,Jun 2 2006, 02:03 PM Wrote:honestly, I'd recomend she stay away from the apple machine.  She's not a computer geek and her boyfriend's a sailor and as far as I can tell, they don't play a lot of videogames... sure they have a bunch of geek friends, but why needlessly complicate things?

Wich makes the Apple machine a better fit for her, you don't need to be a geek to run a Mac. My sister is a convert to the Mac and she took to it without any problems you do need to have a bit of patience to adjust to the way the Mac does certain things but afterwards you think about it and ask why the hell does Windows do it the other way. As for peripherals there is nothing that I haven't plugged into my Mac that doesn't get recognised right away from Printers, digital cameras, USB hard drives. Another bonus of the Mac is the iLife suite of apps from iMovie, iTunes, iWeb, Garage Band, iDVD all included with every Mac a suite like this is not available from Microsoft and the apps that are available on Windows to do all that work are either expensive or archaic in nature compared to the Apple versions. The Mac might be more expensive but in the long run they pay for themselves by having less down time and less virus intrusions.

Laterz :)