Buy a Mac. Toss Your PC

I just spent two hours last night try­ing to trou­bleshoot a fam­i­ly mem­bers brand new Win­dows Vista PC com­put­er. I can’t tell you how much a pain it was to get the new email work­ing and con­tacts trans­ferred safe­ly to Microsoft Out­look. When it was all said and done, we then pro­ceed­ed to send small groups of emails to friends telling them she had a new email account. The rea­son we did small batch­es of emails is so we would not be labeled as a spam­mer! Well, this morn­ing, the PC is in trou­ble! I received a call that she can­not send email. I told her to call Ver­i­zon who quick­ly said, ​“not our problem…sounds like it is a Win­dows problem…call them…” I don’t know who’s prob­lem it is! All I know is that I spent anoth­er hour trou­bleshoot­ing it for her to see if I could fig­ure it out. I turned off the evil Nor­ton soft­ware, think­ing that was the cul­prit. I got the email to receive but not send. There­fore, my con­clu­sion is that Win­dows or Ver­i­zon thinks the email is a spam­mer! I sug­gest­ed to call Ver­i­zon again and don’t let them hang up! I real­ly think it is a com­bi­na­tion between Ver­i­zon and a PC. I can’t tell you how many prob­lems I face while using a PC. I’ve used PC com­put­ers for 20+ years and switched to a Mac a year ago. It was one of the best deci­sions I have ever made! You don’t need Nor­ton or any virus soft­ware. That alone makes your com­put­er run 10x faster! When you install a pro­gram, it is not rock­et-sci­ence. The lit­tle Mac brain fig­ures it out! When you want to use a new Inter­net con­nec­tion, Mac says, ​“Hmm…I think he wants to use this con­nec­tion. Done!” There is just less headaches with a Mac the more I use it. I still use a PC sev­er­al times a week and spend half my time wait­ing for things to load or find­ing infor­ma­tion. So, if you have not pur­chased a Mac and are on the look out for a new com­put­er, it is worth the up front cost to switch to a Mac: I guar­an­tee it. You will save mon­ey on tech sup­port too! One last thing: I heard of my first com­plaint from a Mac own­er. I don’t remem­ber the exact com­plaint as it was VERY minor. When he pur­chased his Mac, he could not fig­ure out a cer­tain pro­gram or func­tion. He tried to get help from one Mac geek at the store who said, ​“I don’t think you can do that.” He then was frus­trat­ed and returned the com­put­er! Ah…but then again, he did not take the time to learn what a great machine these com­put­ers real­ly are! If you get a Mac, there is a learn­ing curve, but it is worth it.