Mac Misconceptions

[Solitare]

I recently came across a co-worker who was trying to get some information off of a support website - but the computer (a PC) wasn't able to do it properly - it wouldn't print out, and converting the webpage to a .pdf file resulted in a black and white image of the new product he was trying to get. I have encountered this many times at my previous job, where the over-zealous webmaster puts in code to keep people from stealing the images and text.

Rather than consider this possibility, he was pinning the blame as a "Mac thing" - in other words, in some way, because a Macintosh has created a website in some way, it was incompatible with a PC. I have no idea if a Mac was used for creating the site or not.

I did try to set him straight on the fact it was a webmaster's coding causing the snafu - not an alleged Mac.

I was wondering if anyone else had this sort of experience from Mac-phobics.

[Travis]

Yes. Definitely.

Although I don't hear it as much now as I did before. I think people have more of a general understanding of how computers work now and that its usually the people who code the programs or make them that create the errors/incompatibilities.

[photographxgrl]

I was wondering if anyone else had this sort of experience from Mac-phobics.

ALL the time! I don't know that they are all necessarily true Mac-phobics (they often are just not Techie-types at all), but I hear this type of thing at work a lot. Seems anytime someone can't get a file open and I can they think it's a "mac thing". A little funny when you realize you rarely hear people say it must be a "windows thing".

laura