I. Hate. Apple.
Christmas was unusually sucky but enough about that. Let me sum it up: Boxes matter.
But onto today's bone-of-contention: Apple.
I. Hate. Apple. Don't tell me it's easier than Windows. That's a lie dumped into the bloodstream by geek manhood. Now, I don't want all the Apple defenders going for my thyroid so let me explain.
I got a new Brother printer for Xmas specifically so I could print out from my Apple Laptop. The Laptop was purchased last year Christmas because I'll need it for work. I have a lot of neat software on it. It's easy to carry. It looks pretty.
I put the Brother printer together and then spent 4 hours trying to get it to accept the Apple Airport Extreme network. Finally printed out the mechanical specs (of every piece of hardware I own including the electic screwdriver - just kidding!) and discovered the Airport Extreme's settings (which of course you CANNOT print out at the time you set it which was probably back in the era when dinosaurs roamed - like 2007.) Got the printer to acknowledge the wireless network existed by reinstalling my Airport Router. Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy.
Now, I have to convince the Apple laptop that there is a Brother printer. It's like introducing the chosen bride to an inferior suitor. Find out its IP address or it's mDNS name (which they keep asking to input but you have no place to do so.) I put in the only IP addresses I got, and no. Nada.
Finally, I got the Mobile Me for my I-phone so I can get all my email at one place. Theoretically. Yeah, right. Delusions abound.
No one has hours on their vacation to stare vacantly at a computer screen or checking out The Missing Manual for the bloody Laptop under Adding a Printer. Right?
Sorry, don't tell me Macs are easier - that Apple is the god and Windows is the devil. I have been in hell since I've tried to "upgrade." I don't consider myself computer stupid at all, but these things defeat me. I wish I'd gotten Vista.
Still I must learn it. I must stop thinking of the Mac Book as My Enemy, and learn to love the Apple because the Online Editor has foisted on us at work so I must learn to love the (rotted) Apple.
Love the machine.... Love the machine... Ommmm..... Crash!
But onto today's bone-of-contention: Apple.
I. Hate. Apple. Don't tell me it's easier than Windows. That's a lie dumped into the bloodstream by geek manhood. Now, I don't want all the Apple defenders going for my thyroid so let me explain.
I got a new Brother printer for Xmas specifically so I could print out from my Apple Laptop. The Laptop was purchased last year Christmas because I'll need it for work. I have a lot of neat software on it. It's easy to carry. It looks pretty.
I put the Brother printer together and then spent 4 hours trying to get it to accept the Apple Airport Extreme network. Finally printed out the mechanical specs (of every piece of hardware I own including the electic screwdriver - just kidding!) and discovered the Airport Extreme's settings (which of course you CANNOT print out at the time you set it which was probably back in the era when dinosaurs roamed - like 2007.) Got the printer to acknowledge the wireless network existed by reinstalling my Airport Router. Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy.
Now, I have to convince the Apple laptop that there is a Brother printer. It's like introducing the chosen bride to an inferior suitor. Find out its IP address or it's mDNS name (which they keep asking to input but you have no place to do so.) I put in the only IP addresses I got, and no. Nada.
Finally, I got the Mobile Me for my I-phone so I can get all my email at one place. Theoretically. Yeah, right. Delusions abound.
No one has hours on their vacation to stare vacantly at a computer screen or checking out The Missing Manual for the bloody Laptop under Adding a Printer. Right?
Sorry, don't tell me Macs are easier - that Apple is the god and Windows is the devil. I have been in hell since I've tried to "upgrade." I don't consider myself computer stupid at all, but these things defeat me. I wish I'd gotten Vista.
Still I must learn it. I must stop thinking of the Mac Book as My Enemy, and learn to love the Apple because the Online Editor has foisted on us at work so I must learn to love the (rotted) Apple.
Love the machine.... Love the machine... Ommmm..... Crash!