Here's a story which I hope will make your day, as it did mine.
Friends of mine bought a Quadra 605 on my suggestion and after
considerable research waaaaaaay back in about 1995.
Since then they've had two children and a mortgage and all those
sorts of things, and of course their needs have changed. In
addition, the Internet has become a Big Thing and web sites have
gone from being very basic to being all-singing, all-dancing and
using plenty of multimedia content.
Throughout all this, to its credit, the Quadra 605 was and is still
doing all the things it was purchased to do!
However my friends decided it was time for an upgrade. They did
considerable research and eventually settled on buying an eMac. Here
is the email they sent me today after they got their Mac last night
from the reseller and went home and unpacked it...
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Well what can I say !!!
It flies . Too cool..
Yes we have our new computer and connected it all up, easy as, and
yes it is very different but also strangely familiar. The look and
feel is like velvet as opposed to a PC which is more clinical. I have
an excellent Pentium 4 at work on Windows XP & Office 2002, all
networked and the eMac is just as good, if not better (still working
things out) but with smoother graphics and brighter colours.
Last night being the parents we are we went to ABC Bananas in Pyjamas
web site (did not take long to get set-up.. click.clickclick) and
tried to play a game. We knew we had to download software for it, and
in an instant we were doing this. That done we installed it and
played the game, all in 20 minutes of going on line. So within 30
minutes of setting up we had fixed a problem that has been a bugbear
for all for months and in the past has taken days of fiddling to get
only half the similar result.
(I'm an Apple advert)
We then started loading CD's etc which was way cool and the story
will continue
PS We did play with idea of going PC partly due to money and partly
due to software but my passion for Mac's was reignited last night and
the wait has been worth it!! Did NOT want to go to work today!!
(Apple free promo here)
PPS
Can't get over how good the machine is. It has everything and I
haven't started playing games yet or trying to use much on it yet.
PPPS I will probably blab like this for days .......
PPPPS Will Apple pay me if I keep rabbiting on like this ???
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Andrew Nielsen <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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