Comments on: I’m a failure as a Mac evangelist http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/ The great thing about technology is it always gets better Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:44:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 By: » Thanks for the TiVo referral Devron! » Ben Drawbaugh http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-527 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:44:42 +0000 http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/#comment-527 […] I’d really like to send a thanks to my friend Devron for sending me a TiVo referral! I love TiVo, and I’m glad I’m more successful at being a TiVo evangelist than I am at being an Apple evangelist. […]

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By: Ben Drawbaugh http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-294 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:00:32 +0000 http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/#comment-294 Yeah I hear you, but really why shouldn’t MacBooks have a right click button. The new Macs come with mice with right click (disabled out of the box).

The real issue is that she relies on a few sites for work that require IE6. I tried to make them work in a OS X browser and they just don’t work. So she has to have windows, so i was going to install Windows on a Mac for her, but then there was the matter of the right click.

Yeah I know it sucks, cause I’m the one who has to manage it.

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By: Victor http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-293 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:46:14 +0000 http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/#comment-293 So wait, you’re saying a 2nd button under the trackpad was the dealbreaker? Jeez, I’ve not seen any user studies to support this assertion, but is it really that much harder to enable right click by putting a 2nd finger on the trackpad THEN hitting the button?

BTW, my wife hasn’t used a PC since Win2k, and she’ll never give up her Macbook. Different strokes 🙂

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By: Ben Drawbaugh http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-282 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:05:54 +0000 http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/#comment-282 Same deal here, whenever my wife’s computer has a problem, I tell her she should’ve bought a Mac. Of course we all know Macs have problems too, but that’s besides the point.

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By: Julio http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-280 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:32:40 +0000 http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/#comment-280 woops, i guess there’s no edit button here either. 🙂

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By: Julio http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-279 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:31:21 +0000 http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/#comment-279 I told my cousin a while back that if she got a laptop, to get a mac. I probably went a little “mac zealot” on her but whatever.

I come to find out from another cousin that she just got a new dell. Of course my first reaction was WTF, but then he told me they were watching a movie on her laptop and it just kept freezing, stuttering and she had to restart it and it still didn’t work.

I just hope she sees the error of her ways and ends up getting a mac.

I hope see ends up trading that POS in for a macbook.

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By: Ben Drawbaugh http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-267 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:48:21 +0000 http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/#comment-267 Julio,
That’s a good idea, but she already has the Vaio.

But before she got it, I did try to give her my old MacBook pro to use instead of her 5 year old Compaq m300, but she refused to use it.

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By: Julio http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-266 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:44:30 +0000 http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/#comment-266 Wow, that sounds really aggravating. Especially something that trivial.

Have you tried doing the geek move and just get here a macbook so she can “temporarily” use it until the vaio comes, and just wait until she gets used to it?

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By: Frankie Majowich http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-248 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:02:09 +0000 http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/#comment-248 Hey Ben you have not completely failed. My next computer will be a Mac. However, who knows when that will be.

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By: Jeremy Toeman http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-242 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:54:20 +0000 http://bjdraw.com/2008/02/23/im-a-failure-as-a-mac-evangelist/#comment-242 I think it’s a perfect choice… as long as you are in the market for a pink paperweight!!

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