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Originally Posted by Rathji
None, I assume. She said she didn't know how to do the things on a Mac that she could do on a PC, so I asked her about those things since I notice them touted as reasons people like Macs. Perhaps me mentioning them here in the post clouded my question.
What I am really asking is what the learning curve is. How long did it take (or should it take) for a normal Windows user to switch to a Mac and be fully productive. She mentioned it takes her a lot more time to do simple tasks that she could easily do on Windows, so I was trying to gauge if this was a normal thing with people who switch.
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It sounds like she has mastered certain favorite apps by rote learning, and can’t handle any kind of paradigm shift. These same people struggle going from XP to Windows 7, or from Firefox to IE, Eudora to Outlook, etc. I’m not blaming her, its a condition I see every day in my job.
I don’t know what the solution is (or, I haven’t found it yet) - I try to teach and work with these kinds of people to get them to think in terms of processes, and how to navigate and make decisions to get from point A to finished project on a machine, but all they do is scribble notes furiously anyways, trying to capture the exact steps I demonstrate, rather than listen to my explanation of the thought process required to get to the goal.
It’s hard, I don’t know how people can manage like that, particularly when there are so many gadgets and interfaces to try and learn rote, everything from a cell phone to a PC, to digital cameras, bluray players, photocopiers (which are more complex than ever!) etc.