That's because Macs and PCs share one crucial flaw: they're both computers. For a PC of that vintage, it's likely Petzold would have had to install the enormous Windows XP Service Pack 2 update to bring it up to date, which is certainly no less of a hassle than going from OS X 10.2 to OS X 10.4. And besides, the slogan isn't "It just works with 100 megabytes of updates."īut if you read closely, as I did, you'll see that the experience wouldn't have been any better on a Windows PC. (Gosh, that was fun.) Presumably some patch to fix this little problem is among the 100 megabytes of updates waiting to be downloaded and installed, but my mother has a dial-up and we're forced to forego this 100 meg download. For awhile she had a problem where certain spam emails would hang the email program upon viewing, but they couldn't be deleted without first being viewed. Just about every time I visit my mother in Jersey, I am called upon to boot up that dreadful machine and do something so it "just works" once again. But she basically only uses email, so perhaps that's the problem. Perhaps if my mother used lots of various Mac applications and stuck in lots of external devices, the machine would "just work" quite well. It certainly casts Apple in an unflattering light Petzold's poor mother can't seem to catch a break. You might read Charles Petzold's ironically titled It Just Works as an anti-Mac diatribe. And yet somehow, nearly fifteen years later, we're all happily retreading the same tired old Mac vs. Eventually, if you're more interested in using computers than endlessly arguing about them, you outgrow the arguments. But all that arguing never seemed to result in anything other than more arguments. I remember spending untold hours on the America Online forums endlessly debating the merits of PCs and Macs with Ross Rubin and other unsavory characters. Personally, I had my fill of Mac versus PC arguments by 1994. Everywhere I go, somebody's explaining in impassioned tones why their pet platform is better than yours. The release of Windows Vista has caused an unfortunate resurgence in that eternal flame of computer religious wars, Mac vs.
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