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and they are smarter....even more than their father

Out of the mouth of babes.....

Time to stop moaning and fork out a couple of grand for one of your own. You know your kids deserve better than to be left with nothing but Windows XP home.

MW "rather", as in who wouldn't rather have a Mac?

It just WORKS!! I was talking with a person the other day about creting an iMovie for my sons school. She turns around with over twenty people standing near us, and says "So, you are one of THOSE people!" I replied yes, ONCE YOU GO MAC..YOU DON'T GO BACK! She then opened the door, and ask WHY?? I proceeded to tell her all the benifits. I found out a few days later, that about 6 or 7 people went to the local Apple store, and 4 of them purchased that day. The others, did not have the money at the time, but were going to purchase. Word of mouth is everything!!

It's because they say the light. They know now how much Windows sucks after using a real OS!

The better question for the kids would be "Why would you use XP over the iMac?"

I bet you wouldn't hear anything about how great it is for enterprise deployment.

my grandson prefers dirt and a stick over a PC.

It is amazing what he does on my iMac, though.

Not even 4 yet.

MW:needs

It's simply a better experience.

Amen brotha...

Isn't that how the mac change happens to PC people? I was forced to use a mac in the computer labs back in college because the windows machines didn't scan images very well. Restarting after 2 image scans in windows but could scan images for hours on the mac. So, after years of trashing macs I actually found that they were better. My graduation present to myself was an ibook. Now years later I try to get people to switch and wonder why I waited sooooooo long.

Mr. Mitchell should have spend some money and kept the iMac for themselves..

Coloured labels for folders, smart folders, expose, simple and straightforward software updates. There are so many big and small useful features that, combined, make an excellent OS. OS X can still be improved but it's the best OS out there for me so far.

MacDailyNews Take: Robert, they like it better because it is better.

Hillarious! That was a chuckle, thanks MDN.

The generations growing up now and in the future will increasingly not want Windows. We're seeing it happen. Finally.

Why is it that not one person in the whole history of the universe has ever switched from a Mac to a PC? How do I know it hasn't happened? Because such an unprecedented event would undoubtedly be plastered on the front page of every PC rag on the internet before you could say "Bill What's-his-face."

In the late 1980s Apple had a scheme where they 'loaned' Mac SE's and Mac II's to large companies for free for 3 months, but left them for 6 months. The orders poured in after the Macs were taken away.

Sounds like time for a re-marketing of an old idea - "Test drive a Macintosh". Pay for a Mac on credit card on Friday. You can bring it back and cancel on Monday - most don't.

My sister had real trouble with her PC a couple of years back, so I gave her an old Dell of mine running Windows XP. Shortly afterwards she got a Mac. After awhile her kids simply stopped using the Windows machine. At first, one of them would use it if another was on the Mac. But after awhile I think it rarely got switched on. If the Mac was in use by one of the others they'd just wait till it was available. But I bet they couldn't tell you why they preferred the Mac.

One could talk about the advanced nature of the Cocoa frameworks, the superior usability, and stuff like that--or point to specific things the Mac does better than Windows, as a blogger does here:

http://blog.frater.com/apple/top-10-things-os-x-does-better-than-windows/

But that's not relevant to a kid. It was probably totally unconscious: they just enjoyed using the machine more, owing to its better design, without really knowing why and imperceptibly gravitated that way.

"...even for web browsing"

I don't quite understand that thought. Perhaps if it said "even for gaming". Is there some sort of perceived flaw with Macs and web browsing?

Forcing a child to use Windows should be considered child abuse.

"I don't quite understand that thought. Perhaps if it said "even for gaming". Is there some sort of perceived flaw with Macs and web browsing?"

I'm guessing he meant that web browsing should be about the same on any platform, so it shouldn't matter what computer they surf on, and yet they picked the Mac.

I don't quite understand that thought. Perhaps if it said "even for gaming". Is there some sort of perceived flaw with Macs and web browsing?



If memory serves me correctly, back in the early years of the internet Macs rendered graphic images in web browsers less efficiently/accurately than did Windows. But ... that's ancient history. Sadly, some people seem to hang on to the saber-tooth-tiger beliefs about a Mac and just refuse to consider that Macs are BETTER than Windows is most things. This is particularly true today of surfing on the internet. Indeed, the kids probably much preferred using the Mac over Windoze because the Mac didn't get infected, or even pinged, every 20 seconds.

@ oh my. Did you begat rugrats?

"I don't quite understand that thought. Perhaps if it said "even for gaming". Is there some sort of perceived flaw with Macs and web browsing?"

Well, the idea is that web browsing is platform independent. But we know that isn't quite true. Every website I've ever built looks better on my Mac. I don't know why - it just does. The pisser is having to check the site on a pc to make sure it looks the way it's supposed to.

Anyway, OS X is a very refined, modern looking OS. XP (and Linux for that matter), by comparison, looks rough and cartoonish (more specifically XP).

The author of that article should have asked his children what there favourite food was.

Once you have sampled excellence, why should you settle for less if you can help it?

Garlic bread, smoked salmon, Sild, chicken kiev, chicken tikka, Beef wellington, roast potatoes, chips, live yoghurt, Ice cream, chocolate, coffee, Whisky, wine, women:-) & song!!

Get the idea?

@ alansky
"Why is it that not one person in the whole history of the universe has ever switched from a Mac to a PC?"

Shockingly, this *does* happen. I come across this in my job sometimes, though it's a little like a bigfoot sighting - rare, fleeting, and when it's over you wonder if you really saw it. But it does happen. Sometimes I'll ask the user why they would do such a thing, but I've honestly never gotten any sort of intelligible reply, mostly just clicks and grunts, or perhaps a few MS trade show talking points.
But out of this small number, a fair portion do come back, eventually. Maybe it's something in the water. Maybe it's a strange low frequency oscillation in the heating system, maybe it's a mind control ray from the secret Illuminati satellite network. Whatever the cause, be vigilant!!! De-Switching is real.
Tell your children.

-c

I left Apple after they retired the Apple IIgs. It was a decade before I came back. 15 minutes with OS X is what did it.

@crabapple: Most kids prefer MacDonalds. I don't think that helps the argument much.

It doesn't reality check, but it does make amusing reading.

Oh My
My grandson's favorite app is.....Photobooth. He loves to use different effects and silly poses. I have found about 70 picures he has done with no one around. Hilarious!

Ok folks, time to haul out that ol' anology - lest we forget.

Once upon a time, 1,000 years or so ago, the Kingdom was still using Roman Numerals to keep track of the bean count. It worked, but not well.

Then we discovered how to 'think different' from the Arabs.

But, many among us resisted the numeric change (what in the hell is that zero thing anyway?). And leading that group were the Mystical Keepers of the Count who were probably going to lose their jobs.

Never-the-less - the People slowly opened their eyes as the little children, the misfits, the square pegs in the round holes - those who were innocent and supple and not afraid - showed them the way.

And they all lived happily after.

Well, maybe, seems we do have to re-invent the wheel ever so often

Thank You
BC Kelly
Tallahassee Fla

Opps - is "analogy", duh

Take a memo - fire that proof-reader

BC

Its just the way in both the operating system work. I swear, when ever I have to help out my family with computer by using Windows...I feel like I'm degrading miserably...even though its only for a matter of minutes. The reason why almost 99% of people who've switched to Macs dont go back is becuase of the simplicity to use OS X. Everything is thought out...and everything is properly shown. Since it runs on UNIX, its extremely stable, and internet browsing has never been more safer.

I myself ONLY use Windows for gaming now...that too with an OS X like theme, and an OS X background (Aqua). Lol. I can't stand that el cheapo fisher-price style XP GUI, nor those 48x48 pix icons....when coming from OS X, which I use at 128 x 128 pix icons.

I also use Linux (Ubuntu) with beryl...and it just totally blows away vista's cheap visual effects. Honestly, most people think that Vista is all that because of the visual effects...however once they see the true power of Quartz Extreme (OS X) or Beryl (Linux)....it changes their mind completely. Few of my friends are living examples.

Simplicity and powerfulness is the key to life....and Apple has mastered that in both exterior (Macs)...and interior (OS X).

I remember using MS 2.11 on a Radio Shack computer. Then one day my friend let me use this Apple thing. Screen and the cpu were together. I turned it on--wow. The GUI was amazing. No more DOS! I was hooked on Apple after that.

Quad Core

"...even for web browsing"

I don't quite understand that thought. Perhaps if it said "even for gaming". Is there some sort of perceived flaw with Macs and web browsing?

Could be someone who remembers how badly Internet Explorer ran on OS 9. There was pretty much only Netscape as an alternative and IE was the default browser. It was horrible, and essentially orphaned after the Microsoft/Apple deal that got it on every new Mac sold.

Until I got the wireless password, I was using friend's XP box here in Paris.

I was using Firefox.

It was SLOW, this on a recent box with plenty of RAM.
XP is just plain UGLY. The text is choppy and pixelated.
Firefox XP looks awful compared to Firefox Mac.

Did I mention UGLY?

By comparison, my PowerBook G4 1.67, with TWO Airport bars loads pages like lightning. And Safari sure looks pretty by comparison.

Well, it's off to Montparnasse for the day. Adieu!

My children learned on a Mac twenty years ago. Mac IIGS. It took me a month to figure out how to use it. Why? Because coming from DOS, I COMPLETELTY missed the simplicity and elegance of the Mac OS. It was too simple.

Interestingly, because of my children's early experiences with the Mac, they were able to use Mac and Window platforms throughout their childhoods.

They're current preferred choice of PC's?

Mac.