I’m proud of my mother. As previously mentioned, for Christmas I gave her my three year old iBook. She now doesn’t need to borrow my father’s Windows box to do computery stuff.
And she is doing well. She still doesn’t grasp some basic concepts, and I do get the occasional question. But she is using it every day.
Before I left I introduced her to iChat, and now she can speak to me over the internet to ask questions. I think this is the best present I’ve given her.
Speaking of Macs, I got into a discussion with over the Christmas break. He decreed that the “I’m a Mac and I’m a PC” ads were offensive to Windows users. They were negative ads, and those never work, except in politics.
Canticle is better at debating than I am, so I have learned not to argue with him, but do my best to hold my opinion until I have time to mull over his points. Frequently he is right.
I did an experiment. I showed my father, a Windows user for at least twenty years, some of the ads.
Verdict: Funny and not offensive.