Graham:

Macs interactions with peripherals are a breeze. As a rule, Macs avoid internal plug-in cards in the way PCs use them, although they have absolutely no trouble handling added hard drives or other internal components.

I doubt much time will be used learning the differences, aside from locating the various commands. THe functions of the windows and mouse interface established in 1984 by Jobs and Co are well estabslihed and consistent.

Last night BBW gave me a video camera to use with my multimedia workstation, a G5. It was so hard to use I nearly fainted. Here's what happened. I plugged it in. I started iMovie. My face appeared on the monitor. I talked for a few minutes, clicked a button, and emailed the QuickTime movie to BBW as proof of concept.

So, that was a struggle.

I suspect if I had plugged the same device into a XP machine, it would have argued that it needed a driver. Then I woudl have gone off looking to download the driver and what for it to install. Then it might have worked.

The general level of internal compatability and cooperative workability in Mac apps and peripherals is much higher than Windows users experience. The number of debugs and re-installs is much lower. The virus vulnerability is dramatically lower. The ease of use has always been higher.

'S a no-brainer.


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