May 1st, 2009

"I'm smarter than lots of really smart people"

Posted by bert at 09:00 PM on May 1, 2009 in ME.

my mom's computer was "broken" so of course it becomes the reformed engineer's job to fix it.    Though she has already called Dell, and two current IBM'ers to help fix it, my mom was not getting sound out of her laptop.  

Turns out someone helped her with a selective startup that turned off the sound drivers on the computer so I turned those back on.   My mom was so impressed and told me that I was smarter than 3 people, and that cooking dinner for me was an excellent form of payment.  Of course, one of the people who helped told my mom she wouldn't have "these kind of problems if she got a mac."

Ok, so I don't get it.  Macs are cute, they're nice to look at, but at the end of the day it's just a computer.   It has less software options, that when you can buy it often costs more.    It's not like Macs never have problems (have you looked at the waiting list at those "Genius Bars?"   And now they're talking about how it gets less viruses than PCs.   Well.. that is true because virus makers target PC's since the user base is much larger.   I think it would not be a stretch to imagine a day when virus makers start targeting iPhone OS and Mac OS's because a bunch of these really "cool" people are still stupid when it comes to computer use.   How do you make phishing more effective?  Target a mac.  I know I would if I were a hacker.   (sadly I was thinking "blue ocean strategy" as I wrote those words).

Oh and Linda.. your mom has learned some new tricks in teh cooking department.  It was a truly solid meal when I got home. =)

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