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looking for an older Mac notebook



Theodore Ruegsegger wrote:
> Beware unintended consequences, unless your users are sophisticated
> enough to try GNU/Linux all by themselves. "Ordinary users" aren't
> worth the bother.
> ...
> They don't want to learn anything--they want it to work without any
> effort or care on their parts...

This hasn't been my experience. The key to a successful migration is to
do it incrementally, starting with the applications. Once a user is well
familiar with a suite of cross-platform applications, switching the OS
is hardly noticeable. The response I hear is "wow, its faster."

Of course this works for a typical, casual user, and not, say for the
accountant, who is wed to their Windows-only accounting package. That
poses more of a challenge.

The same general principle should apply to easing a Windows to Mac
transition, if you feel OS X justifies the hardware/software cost.

 -Tom

-- 
Tom Metro
Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA
"Enterprise solutions through open source."
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