argh... mac user vs. me...

[scottyman]

I think you'll all appreciate this one:
My little sister (well, not that little - she's 22 I think) has an iBook, has had it for three years. Clearly hadn't used it for at least two.
Brings it out of the mothballs to use it for her dissertation.
Turns out, (to nobody's surprise except hers) that it isn't windows. Doesn't have microsoft office, and will never run windows.
She calls me to say it's broken, and doesn't have windows on it (which it should have according to her!) I'm thinking she meant office, but no, she insists that when she last used it, it was running Windows 98.
I had to say... are you sure you aren't talking about my old laptop which I gave you, and you refused to use it, as too complicated?
Nope, she says... Never said that, never happened, and she needs her Mac to run windows.
Said to her - what's the problem, describe it to me...
Well, she says... there's a document on my desktop, a word document which I can't open. I must have opened it before because I downloaded it three months ago, and I need it today!
(ouch!)
Don't be bloody stupid, sez I, you clearly have never opened it before, and you haven't got office installed, so unless AppleWorks allows you to import Word documents, then you were never able to open it.
At which point she admits that, no, she'd never opened the document.
Fine sez I, I'll post you up my old laptop, which you will be able to use for everything. Just bin the mac.
But, no, she goes down to the apple store instead and pays RETAIL for Office for Max OS X. This was on the advice of the staff who told her that this version of Office would work on her iBook (she even bought it down there for them to look at)
Needless to say, wouldn't install, so now I get to call the store manager and accuse him of ripping off poor students, and selling them inappropriate goods.
In the meantime, I've dusted the mothballs off my old trusty lappy, and am getting that prepped to head north for the winter.

The real problem is that my little sister is just as pig headed as I am, and ditto with the rest of the family. My little brother is a mac luser also, and I went through exactly the same issues with him about 6 months ago! ARGH!

Sorry, just needed to vent!

[steve threlfall]

Bah bloody rip off merchants mate

and now you have to sort things out

[5lab]

seems mac stores are employing ex-pc world staff now

i *hate* macs, and their advertising.. a mate of mine brought one under the impression it was easier than a pc, but found to her distaste that they arent when you are used to a pc.. and she now has the habbit of phoning me and borrowing my work laptop for weekends when she needs it. mutter mutter grumble..

[joshwa]

what a horrible story on SO many levels i don't know whether to laugh or cry!!!

the only glimmer of hope is that you should be able to get a refund on the software as it was clearly sold to you as the correct program for your specific mac that she even took into the store!!

ps - if you want to give me the mac laptop, then feel free

[unrealrocks]

Nasty - Mac OSX is easy to use, if you try and forget the shortcuts and things your use to in windows.

I think you should have a licence for using a PC then so many PCs wouldn't get put though things with bad users

You should be able to take the software back, esp if you we're advised about it, although let her take it back because they'll doubt a woman will have copyed it or nicked the serial

[scottyman]

managed to sort it without too much pain... didn't even have to threaten opening up a can of whoopass! Apparently a misunderstanding!
she would still rather use her crappy old ibook rather than a "proper" laptop. I don't really see how windows is too complicated!

[Angus]

Am I missing the point somewhere? She can't use the ibook because it's different to what she's used to... and she can't use Windows (the thing she's used to) because it's too complicated.

women!!

<hides before battering commences>

[scottyman]

who knows -
she didn't want to get a pc, as too complicated - but somehow, manages to survive three years using only the university windows machines.
now going back to a mac, she now finds windows too complicated!