Think Different

At work I have to use an horrendous black box called a Dell.

At home I use a wonderful Macintosh. A sleek white MacBook. You know that I'm  a Macintosh nerd. Love them, always have and I always will. They just work.

Now what's this got to do with Plain English? Well nothing, but it has a lot to do with keeping it simple - my other consuming passion.

Today I had to burn some pictures to a compact disk. Unfortunately I had to do it on the Dell.

1. Why on Earth doesn't the CD Rom appear on the Finder - sorry Desktop - when you put it in the machine?

2. Why, when you eventually find the blank disk - hidden away somewhere on the system - and drag it across doesn't it copy the file straight away?

3. Why do you have to then click on another option called write this file to disk? Of course I want to write the file to the disk - why the hell else would I drag the file into it?

4. Why doesn't a simple box pop up telling me that the operation has been successful?

It's infuriating.

Keep it simple (and get a Mac).

Will