Is that a good word for 'somebody who makes another a switcher'?
My aunt's husband visited us a few days ago, and was shocked to see my new iMac; shocked because I have been big on PCs for years. So he asks me about it, fiddles around with it, and tells me that he was fed up with his PC. This was a top-of-the-line super-charged PC which cost him around $6500 (!) last year. His primary use for it was creating DVDs out his old videos dating back to 15 years ago when his daughter was a toddler, and the PC would crash in the midst of things, making each DVD creation a labor-of-frustration. He has managed only around a dozen DVDs in the past 6 months.
So I told him that the last time I had booted my iMac was on Sept 26, when the day it was delivered! Of course, I have not done any heavy video-editing as yet, but have fiddled around with all of iLife quite a bit (and am only unhappy with iPhoto), and I am not even on Panther yet.
To make it short, we sat down and went over what sort of configuration would be suitable for him, and the day before Thanksgiving, he went to the local CompUSA to place his order. He is at least an hour away from any Apple Store, and just 2 minutes from CompUSA, and once his mind is made up, he is very impatient, so he did not want to wait for Apple's delivery schedule
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His set-up : a G5-Dual with 1.5 Gig memory, 2 x 160GB HD, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro and a variety of software. I told him not to bother with the display because he already has a good 21" LCD.
Pity was, CompUSA did not have the video card right then, and asked him to pick the order up on the day-after Thanksgiving, which meant I could not see it when I visited them for Thanksgiving.
But at least I noted that he had forgotten to order the Airport Extreme Card to use with his existing wireless LinkSys router (he thought he could use a PC wireless card), and suggested he ask CompUSA to put that in too. I also told him that he better buy Apple Care, as he is not a techie, and for the money he is putting in, the $250 would be worth the peace of mind. Did I miss out on anything?
So, for a 3-month-old Mac-newbie, I think I did pretty good, inducing a switcher. Not only that, at the TGiving dinner, seeing both of us talking about this so animatedly, two other guests got excited enough to say they would be visiting the Apple Store to check it out. Spread the word, I say
My aunt's husband visited us a few days ago, and was shocked to see my new iMac; shocked because I have been big on PCs for years. So he asks me about it, fiddles around with it, and tells me that he was fed up with his PC. This was a top-of-the-line super-charged PC which cost him around $6500 (!) last year. His primary use for it was creating DVDs out his old videos dating back to 15 years ago when his daughter was a toddler, and the PC would crash in the midst of things, making each DVD creation a labor-of-frustration. He has managed only around a dozen DVDs in the past 6 months.
So I told him that the last time I had booted my iMac was on Sept 26, when the day it was delivered! Of course, I have not done any heavy video-editing as yet, but have fiddled around with all of iLife quite a bit (and am only unhappy with iPhoto), and I am not even on Panther yet.
To make it short, we sat down and went over what sort of configuration would be suitable for him, and the day before Thanksgiving, he went to the local CompUSA to place his order. He is at least an hour away from any Apple Store, and just 2 minutes from CompUSA, and once his mind is made up, he is very impatient, so he did not want to wait for Apple's delivery schedule
. His set-up : a G5-Dual with 1.5 Gig memory, 2 x 160GB HD, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro and a variety of software. I told him not to bother with the display because he already has a good 21" LCD.
Pity was, CompUSA did not have the video card right then, and asked him to pick the order up on the day-after Thanksgiving, which meant I could not see it when I visited them for Thanksgiving.
But at least I noted that he had forgotten to order the Airport Extreme Card to use with his existing wireless LinkSys router (he thought he could use a PC wireless card
), and suggested he ask CompUSA to put that in too. I also told him that he better buy Apple Care, as he is not a techie, and for the money he is putting in, the $250 would be worth the peace of mind. Did I miss out on anything?So, for a 3-month-old Mac-newbie, I think I did pretty good, inducing a switcher
. Not only that, at the TGiving dinner, seeing both of us talking about this so animatedly, two other guests got excited enough to say they would be visiting the Apple Store to check it out. Spread the word, I say 
