My brother went to art college and managed to get quite a nice mac free by way of a grant. Unless it’s free though, I’d say that, for the average user, they’re more trouble than they’re worth.
My mother now has the computer in the loft, doing nothing.
The first time she tried to connect to the internet, it told her the software needed to be upgraded. The Mac Man came and told her, no it didn’t. She had to pay anyway. Then it still didn’t work and the (hard to find) Macman came and upgraded it in the end. More money. Then it was dead slow, but it worked. Finally after getting broadband installed (BT were the only provider in the area) we she found out that the Mac is not compatible with BT broadband.
Now she has an old PC, which works fine for what she needs it to do. I don’t want to have any more to do with Macs.
