<p>Are you serious @fascination? :)</p>
<p>Even my retired mother likes them better. She once called after I sent her one as a gift and said she wasn’t going to turn it on unless I flew home and helped her. I laughed, told her to plug it in and I’d wait to call the Fire Station in case it blew up on her (as she was scared it would do). After a quick “chime” and two minutes of listening to her click away (log in, register her computer) she said “That’s it?” I laughed and said - “Yep, that’s it. Plug it in. Turn it on.” Several weeks later my editor (about the same age) got a new laptop from the publisher and expressed the same fear. I said “Turn it on.” Two minutes later she was smitten. As was my husband who complained we’d done something to his PC when he noticed our Macs were running faster.</p>
<p>Needless to say - my father has been through three PC’s while my mother’s Mac mini is still plugging away. So imagine my surprise when my mother and her neighbor met me for a short vacation and both were toting their new iPads (and pretty addicted to them).</p>
<p>But I can imagine PC owners have a tough transition because they’re used to having to jump through hoops to make their programs work (install, uninstall, etc.). Macs are made for people who have better things to do with their time. And they’re voice activated (something Apple hasn’t been telling people for years). Just go to speech preferences, give your computer a name, and train it for your voice. You can use voice commands to set up appointments, make it look up phone numbers in your address book, open and close documents, send a document to email, and/or tell corny jokes. Better yet - set up a special key sequence, select a voice, and it will then read documents back to you. </p>
<p>Macs aren’t harder - just different. Like I said - I have both and the PC configuration just seems convoluted. Although I will admit I have used them since the days of C:\ commands (which interestingly enough seemed more straight forward than today’s Windows programs).</p>
<p>IMHO :)</p>