On Apr 26, 2007, at 7:19 AM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> I thought that one of the good things about Macs are their
> user-friendly design (at least that's what I hear)?

They've oscillated quite a bit.  The original Mac was the
system that introduced the computing community to "long
shank torx driver", for instance.  Add "cutting edge"
technology that only sometimes catches on with the rest
of the world (SCSI disks, ADB keyboards, USB (at the time
is was introduced), firewire, special trays for disks,
non-support of third-party DVD burners, ADC.)  The current
high-end macs open easily and have some significant "user
upgradability" features, but consider also the iMacs and
mac minis that ... don't.  They're "user friendly" in general
only for the class of users that they're particularly aimed
at, and that's frequently NOT "nerd friendly."  (Hmm.  Rather
similar to Dell in many respects...)

BillW

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