Nov 21
Oct 30
These things in his mouth, they are teeth, and apparently they can cause harm.
Easy there Kitty Kat. Now onto a more interesting Leopard….and one which won’t harm your fawn.
May 30
I’m not a big fan of any of the US or UK based Apple Mac adverts. This one gets my goat a bit.
It leads you to believe that all Macs ‘just work’ out of the box. The only Mac which actually works out of the box without any configuration is the iMac range.
One power cable is all you need to get started, the mouse and keyboard are then naturally plugged into the unit but there are wireless options available for both keyboards and mice via bluetooth. Both the Macbook and Macbook Pro are laptops so obviously they are good to go but they don’t really count because all laptops share this same amazing feature! The Mac Mini comes without a monitor, keyboard or mouse so that’s a non starter and of course the Mac Pro comes packaged minus a monitor.
So technically there is only one Mac which comes ready ‘out of the box’.
The PC in the advert above explains to his eager Mac friend that he can’t play because he needs to download some drivers, wipe the trial software from his system and finally he needs to read the manual. When I first booted up my iMac I had to update the software and I also had remove some trial software from the system, ironically the trial software in question is Microsoft Office.
I didn’t get a proper manual with the Mac either. I didn’t even get one of those annoying little tours which drive me nuts whenever I setup PCs in work. When the Mac was fully operational I actually sat in my seat looking at the screen trying to figure out if any tutorial or short video clips were going to appear to assist me. No. Nothing appeared. So what did I do? I consulted the tiny manual which accompanied the box. It contained very little information. Luckily enough there is a PDF which contains a good bit of detail available on the hard drive called the iMac Users Guide (spotlight is great for searching). I hate reading manuals on monitors. I would have printed the manual but I don’t have a compatible printer for Mac.
Mmm, I wonder if I was using a PC would I have this problem? I could probably go online and download a driver.
Apple Macs aren’t as ‘out of the box’ as they let on.