With home computers we're still at the stage of the automobile in the early 20th C - you need an expert mechanic on hand, need to grease it & change the oil frequently, and God help you if you don't understand what goes on under the hood!
Give it another 20 years and perhaps the Mac "ideal" will extend to just switching on and leaving the rest to the "automatics" like today's cars. You'll still need to understand support & resistance though.
I totally agree.
Ninja, you made good points too.
But it's still, at the end of the day, about simplicity though isn't it.
Ie the well thought out, logical procedure is the one that needs the fewest steps, is the one that reduces to the max unncesssary steps.
If I want to switch on my radio I do not want to have to go through ten menu levels just to get to where my grandparents got with one single step 70 years ago.
As far as I'm aware a Mac is always simpler than a PC, with orders that get you where you want to go needing far fewer steps than on a PC.
And you really cannot delete anything on a Mac without knowing exactly what you're doing...
The way you delete something is by clicking on it, and dragging it to what very clearly looks like a trash bin, and dumping it inside.
The same like at home: pick up your trash, walk over to the trash bin, and throw it in.
Simple, elegant, and effective.
If people need to safeguard their trash bins at home by making it necessary to unlock several doors and go through several procedures before they can reach their trash cans, just to make sure that they don't inadvertently throw away the family jewels, then that is more a function of old age creeping on, than anything remotely sensible.
No disrespect to your parents at all, old age coming creeping up is just a question of time for all of us after all.
A final advantage of MAC's: Size.
No more huge, clunky boxes standing around.
