On Wednesday 28 July 2010 10:47:55 G T Smith wrote:
lynn wrote:
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friend of mine "drinks the Apple koolaid" as I like to tease him by saying... he keeps trying Linux on his reg PC, and it always explodes in a myriad of weird ways that no one else can duplicate
In Spain, mac users are called macbores. They look for real ale, only speak English, are old and use very expensive computers. Oh, and have a beard. Is that the case elsewhere?
L x
Hmm.. having worked in an academic environment where over time everything from BBC/Atom machines to super computers were in regular (mis)use, the site MAC guru described the Apple as "the computer for people who do not like using computers". These were usually either portly ageing tweed suited humanities staff or younger dynamic arts folk (and the medics.. go figure !?) ... very few were boring and some were more than a little weird... :-)
My thread was meant as a joke. macbores tell you that apple make computers. Until they don't work. The keyboard packs up, the touch screen doesn't work, the ñ doesn't work, none of the tildes work In guarantee a guy has to be shipped in from Madrid to fix it in Alicante.(that's 500Km for US users) Then they give him a whole new computer and take the old one away. Then the next day 's' doesn't work and the mouse doesn't click. Great system. At least W7 has a helpline. L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org