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Originally Posted by
whiteslashasian 
I agree. You wouldn't believe how many friends I have who own Macs that have asked me to set up wireless networks or install something silly, like a webcam, for them. Many people are drawn to Macs because they're not supposed to have to be "tech saavy" to use them.
I'm not sure it's all about being "tech savvy", but about adjusting to something else.
Let's play with the example of setting up a wireless router. If you buy one off the shelf at your local BestBuy, in order to set it up you'll have to connect all the wires (duh), and then connect to it with your browser through a horrible interface. You'll need to manually enter a lot of details, at least that's my experience with Linksys routers. It's not straight-forward and easy to follow.
Or say you buy an Airport Extreme or a Time Capsule. You'll connect it, power on your Mac and connect, open up a small application and configure it. You'll have the choice of the easy and simple configuration, which is following a guide on your own computer, or you can enter the advanced mode and tweak settings as you like.
If you have more than one device on your network, all of them will show up and it's a matter of clicking on the correct device, instead of trying to remember that IP address your extender had, or even worse, trying to remember that long-forgotten password.
It's just so much simpler. Sure, a bunch of Mac users aren't that tech savvy, but I think it's more about adjusting your mindset and
not that they don't understand it.
And yeah, you won't be able to run DD-WRT and powerboost your antennas, but I'm glad we switched from Linksys routers running DD-WRT to a Time Capsule and Airport Express as an extender. I'm not looking back, and I haven't missed anything (apart from being able to save the configuration, but that's done automatically. Just gives me a tiny bit more piece of mind to have the configuration saved on my hard drive and being able to upload it to a backup router, but that's a minor annoyance)
