[DM-MUG] Why its hard to buy Macs - by a bit of a dullard apparently

[Victoria L. Herring]

At 8:33 PM -0800 or thereabouts on 12/15/03, <edkelly@netins.net> 
sent an email winging my way.....................................
>The following was very interesting, written by Jerry Pournelle, who 
>always wrote the NEW USER column for Byte Magazine for years, until 
>he was no longer a new user.  He is a bit of a curmudgeon

I think he sounds like someone who thinks He Is God's Gift to the 
World and Don't You Forget It [me, I never heard of the guy] and got 
his nose out of joint when he couldn't introduce himself and the 
sales person/woman was not suitably impressed and groveling 
immediately upon his entry in the door.  I'm sorry for his problems 
[why someone would need to ask Apple PR where to buy a Mac and not 
just go to a usual reseller or  the web and look it up is beyond me], 
but they appear to be of his own making.

>
>I have had no instructions whatever. I brought the machine home and 
>turned it on.

Duh!  It's not unlike getting a new model of a car...bring it home 
and turn it on - why would he need spiffy new instructions???  If 
this were a complaint of someone who had never touched a computer, I 
could understand but since he is a guru of sorts, apparently, why's 
his nose out of joint?

>but I sure wish I had gone to Fry's:
  - so why did't he....

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