Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

ardchoille50

macrumors 68020
Original poster
Feb 6, 2014
2,142
1,231
Have you seen any humorous tech support pics lately? Here's my favorite:

image.jpg
 

diggy33

macrumors 65816
Aug 13, 2011
1,323
2,107
Northern Virginia
WhatMac.jpg
I had a co-worker come in to the office, and ask if I would work on his personal MacBook Air. He said it was having trouble and would blue-screen on him quite often. I told him that Mac's dont BSOD, unless someone had it set up running bootcamp and booting directly in to Windows. He swore it was running OS X, so I said Okay, I'll take a look. What he brought me is the machine on the left. He told me that his must be a "first gen" when I showed him a genuine Air.
 

imlovinit

macrumors 6502a
Feb 8, 2012
703
479
I had a co-worker come in to the office, and ask if I would work on his personal MacBook Air. He said it was having trouble and would blue-screen on him quite often. I told him that Mac's dont BSOD, unless someone had it set up running bootcamp and booting directly in to Windows. He swore it was running OS X, so I said Okay, I'll take a look. What he brought me is the machine on the left. He told me that his must be a "first gen" when I showed him a genuine Air.

how did he take the news?
 

MuGeN PoWeR

macrumors 68040
Jun 29, 2011
3,242
1,286
I had a co-worker come in to the office, and ask if I would work on his personal MacBook Air. He said it was having trouble and would blue-screen on him quite often. I told him that Mac's dont BSOD, unless someone had it set up running bootcamp and booting directly in to Windows. He swore it was running OS X, so I said Okay, I'll take a look. What he brought me is the machine on the left. He told me that his must be a "first gen" when I showed him a genuine Air.

HAHAHHAha this just made my day LMAO
 

AlliFlowers

macrumors 601
Jan 1, 2011
4,542
15,756
L.A. (Lower Alabama)
I had someone call me during the summer because they were at a workshop and couldn't connect to the school system's network. I asked if it was a personal or a school computer and was assured that it was a school Mac. I thought that was odd, cause the system is 99% Windows. So I started walking through connect procedures. Long story short, it was a personally owned PC. How do people not know that?

And why does everyone not know CTL-C and CTL-V?
 
  • Like
Reactions: imlovinit

diggy33

macrumors 65816
Aug 13, 2011
1,323
2,107
Northern Virginia
I had someone call me during the summer because they were at a workshop and couldn't connect to the school system's network. I asked if it was a personal or a school computer and was assured that it was a school Mac. I thought that was odd, cause the system is 99% Windows. So I started walking through connect procedures. Long story short, it was a personally owned PC. How do people not know that?

And why does everyone not know CTL-C and CTL-V?

You would be AMAZED at what we think are simple things that common users just dont know.
 

redheeler

macrumors G3
Oct 17, 2014
8,581
9,177
Colorado, USA
I had a co-worker come in to the office, and ask if I would work on his personal MacBook Air. He said it was having trouble and would blue-screen on him quite often. I told him that Mac's dont BSOD, unless someone had it set up running bootcamp and booting directly in to Windows. He swore it was running OS X, so I said Okay, I'll take a look. What he brought me is the machine on the left. He told me that his must be a "first gen" when I showed him a genuine Air.
Incredible :D
OK, I'll bite... What is Ctl-C and Ctl-V? I have never used those shortcuts for anything, IIRC.
Or, did you mean Cmd-C and Cmd-V :D
Ctrl-C is a quick way to rename a file in icon view, you actually didn't know? ;)
 

DeltaMac

macrumors G5
Jul 30, 2003
13,741
4,572
Delaware
...
Ctrl-C is a quick way to rename a file in icon view, you actually didn't know? ;)

Nope, never have seen that, and have never used it, at least in OS X
And, that means you have to press two keys, so not so much of a shortcut, when you only need to press return on a selected file or folder to rename. :D
 

redheeler

macrumors G3
Oct 17, 2014
8,581
9,177
Colorado, USA
Nope, never have seen that, and have never used it, at least in OS X
And, that means you have to press two keys, so not so much of a shortcut, when you only need to press return on a selected file or folder to rename. :D
But, with pressing Return, you don't get that satisfying system alert sound :D fair enough though :)
 

Scepticalscribe

macrumors Haswell
Jul 29, 2008
65,084
47,473
In a coffee shop.
I had someone call me during the summer because they were at a workshop and couldn't connect to the school system's network. I asked if it was a personal or a school computer and was assured that it was a school Mac. I thought that was odd, cause the system is 99% Windows. So I started walking through connect procedures. Long story short, it was a personally owned PC. How do people not know that?

And why does everyone not know CTL-C and CTL-V?

No. I don't. You don't know them unless someone teaches them to you, or shows them to you.

Some of us came to computing relatively late - I was already a college teacher of several years before I used my first computer. Therefore, I didn't grow up with this stuff, and am essentially self-taught, as I never learned, or was never taught a lot of this stuff.

You would be AMAZED at what we think are simple things that common users just dont know.

Of course. None of this is self-evident; unless you are taught it, or someone takes the time and trouble to show it to you, you are not going to know it.

OK, I'll bite... What is Ctl-C and Ctl-V? I have never used those shortcuts for anything, IIRC.
Or, did you mean Cmd-C and Cmd-V :D

I never learned those commands, either.

Incredible :D

Ctrl-C is a quick way to rename a file in icon view, you actually didn't know? ;)

No.

Nope, never have seen that, and have never used it, at least in OS X
And, that means you have to press two keys, so not so much of a shortcut, when you only need to press return on a selected file or folder to rename. :D

Neither did I.
 
Last edited:

AlliFlowers

macrumors 601
Jan 1, 2011
4,542
15,756
L.A. (Lower Alabama)
I should have prefaced my remarks with some additional background. The cut/copy/paste came from a meeting I attended on Tuesday with other teachers who have supposedly trained enough to offer online courses to other teachers. Watching some of them navigate through their own courses to make edits was painful.

No. I don't. You don't know them unless someone teaches them to you, or shows them to you.

Some of us who came to computing relatively late - I was already a college teacher of several years before I used my first computer. Therefore, I didn't grow up with this stuff, and am essentially self-taught, as I never learned, or was never taught a lot of this stuff.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Scepticalscribe

Scepticalscribe

macrumors Haswell
Jul 29, 2008
65,084
47,473
In a coffee shop.
I should have prefaced my remarks with some additional background. The cut/copy/paste came from a meeting I attended on Tuesday with other teachers who have supposedly trained enough to offer online courses to other teachers. Watching some of them navigate through their own courses to make edits was painful.

Ah, yes. Fair enough. Context is everything……..

 

keysofanxiety

macrumors G3
Nov 23, 2011
9,539
25,302
I had a co-worker come in to the office, and ask if I would work on his personal MacBook Air. He said it was having trouble and would blue-screen on him quite often. I told him that Mac's dont BSOD, unless someone had it set up running bootcamp and booting directly in to Windows. He swore it was running OS X, so I said Okay, I'll take a look. What he brought me is the machine on the left. He told me that his must be a "first gen" when I showed him a genuine Air.

I ... I don't believe this. I can't believe this.
 

ocabj

macrumors 6502a
Jul 2, 2009
548
202
lolwut.jpg
I had a co-worker come in to the office, and ask if I would work on his personal MacBook Air. He said it was having trouble and would blue-screen on him quite often. I told him that Mac's dont BSOD, unless someone had it set up running bootcamp and booting directly in to Windows. He swore it was running OS X, so I said Okay, I'll take a look. What he brought me is the machine on the left. He told me that his must be a "first gen" when I showed him a genuine Air.
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.