MacPhobia vs. PCPhobia

June 23, 2008 (Monday) | Operating Systems

There is apparently, still, a lot of phobia out there about changing over from one computer operating system to another. Even after nearly a quarter century where the main camps have been largely the same (Windows on the PC side and Macintosh for the Apple minority). Last week, I borrowed my wife’s PC laptop while I was on the road (see “Alabama’s Broadband Tide”) and thought she would be quite happy using my 24” Macintosh iMac in the interim. No way. She was ecstatic to see the laptop back on her desk Friday night. The Mac? “It is scary,’’ she said. “The cursor rises up and jumps out at you. I hate that.” She was actually referring to the...