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Re:Technololgy Companies. We Hate You. by menloparkbum on Monday March 16, 2009 @02:56PM (#518574)
Can you return it?

I gave my mom a Macbook 5 years ago and she's never had to ask anyone for support.

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Re:Technololgy Companies. We Hate You. by modoc on Monday March 16, 2009 @04:12PM (#518705)
Ditto this. I got tired of constantly tech supporting my mom on her Dell, and gave her my old MBP. Spent 30 minutes walking her through the OS X differences, and really haven't heard from her since. She uses it all the time now to create and give presentations, along with the standard e-mail/web/etc...
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Re:Technololgy Companies. We Hate You. by DanielBMarkham on Monday March 16, 2009 @02:59PM (#518582)
Probably not. I spent all day "configuring" it -- resizing the icons and text size, doing all that install stuff, imaging the drive, etc. Plus it's shipped.

How old was your mom when you got it for her? Did she have previous computer experience?

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Re:Technololgy Companies. We Hate You. by menloparkbum on Monday March 16, 2009 @03:02PM (#518590)
She was 55 and uses a PC at work.
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Re:Technololgy Companies. We Hate You. by DanielBMarkham on Monday March 16, 2009 @09:34PM (#519181)
I think that's a little different. My mom is 75 and the last keyboard she used was a selectric typewriter sometime around 1990.

So we're starting completely from zero.

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