MAC support anyone?

[ajc196]

And that means what? It's completely irrelevant. There are 10 year olds in this world that are more knowledgeable than twenty of both you and I combined. I think you have a very biased sense of superiority based upon age and a subjective "experience" metric.

 

[anonymous Mac Tech]

And that means what? It's completely irrelevant. There are 10 year olds in this world that are more knowledgeable than twenty of both you and I combined. I think you have a very biased sense of superiority based upon age and a subjective "experience" metric.

Yeah, I'm sure in some cases I'm not smarter than a 5th grader, but IQ has nothing to do with REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE. There are only so many things you can be shown, read about, or taught by someone. Until you actually do it for a living, you don't really know much of anything. There aren't many 10 year-olds or fresh out of college grads with nothing but time on their hands that can account for the value of real world, real problems, and real paying clients, whether it be PCs or Macs.

If that's it. I've got machines to work on for paying customers

 

[ajc196]

Yeah, I'm sure in some cases I'm not smarter than a 5th grader, but IQ has nothing to do with REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE. There are only so many things you can be shown, read about, or taught by someone. Until you actually do it for a living, you don't really know much of anything. There aren't many 10 year-olds or fresh out of college grads with nothing but time on their hands that can account for the value of real world, real problems, and real paying clients, whether it be PCs or Macs.

If that's it. I've got machines to work on for paying customers

As do I. I work my ass off 9am to 6pm daily, rarely taking a full lunch, on a mostly full in-shop bench. I spend my off time keeping up on tech news and learning new things. If you can magically account for my experience from only my age and a couple of online messages... then wow.

 

[gunslinger]

I can tell you why I personally dont: simply, not enough demand to justify the cost of a mac to learn on. Id like to, but I get MAYBE one request per month for simple things that definitely wouldnt pay for my time or equipment to learn.

Do I hate apple? Irrelevant, its about money. That's what this whole business is about (and helping people more than likely if you're a true tech). You'll go into a cat house owned by a smoker to service a 15 year old packard bell but won't work on a persons computer (and subsequently take their money) because of "morals" or loyalties or something else? Stfu & gtfo please and thanks.

I don't believe this. Why do you seem to think the only way you can get a Mac is brand new directly from Apple? I can get a used Macbook right now for $500-600. Maybe a bit less if I really shop around. Lets say you get one Mac call per month at $50, In a year it paid for itself.

You say its about the money? How do Mac only techs make any?

Hey I know techies who have done far worse for a few bucks and turn their nose up at working on a Mac at their shop. Why? Because for some reason they have been drinking the Microsoft/gamer coolaid, they fear Macs because they don't understand them. They are completely close minded and unwilling to learn something new. This seems to be fairly common with techs. I still know some who are still installing XP SP2 and Ad-aware.

 

[SmithFamilyDesigns]

I don't believe this. Why do you seem to think the only way you can get a Mac is brand new directly from Apple? I can get a used Macbook right now for $500-600.

$500-600 is a pretty big justification for learning a side of repair that I only get maybe 1-2 inquiries a month about, and the inquiries are for small things, nothing that would make money. So thank you for that point. I also never said anything about brand new, just the cost in general.

I am not opposed to learning macs, I want to but I cannot justify it when I am making money and keeping busy doing PC only right now. If it get's slow and I have several hundred dollars laying around to blow, then I will.

 

[ajc196]

Hey I know techies who have done far worse for a few bucks and turn their nose up at working on a Mac at their shop. Why? Because for some reason they have been drinking the Microsoft/gamer coolaid, they fear Macs because they don't understand them. They are completely close minded and unwilling to learn something new. This seems to be fairly common with techs. I still know some who are still installing XP SP2 and Ad-aware.

What's worse is when someone is capable and they think they aren't, especially for very simple, mundane things. I watched a good friend of mine tell his girlfriend "I don't do Macs" and proceed to receive the silent treatment for about a week when all she asked him was to install a printer. That's one heck of a line to draw when it comes to "not doing Macs".

 

[gunslinger]

What's worse is when someone is capable and they think they aren't, especially for very simple, mundane things. I watched a good friend of mine tell his girlfriend "I don't do Macs" and proceed to receive the silent treatment for about a week when all she asked him was to install a printer. That's one heck of a line to draw when it comes to "not doing Macs".

Yeah, once I hear that line from any tech I stop having respect for them. I don't consider myself an expert with Linux either, not even a "power user" but if someone had a ubuntu machine in front of me and asked me to do something simple I'd give it an honest shot.

 

[angry_geek]

The lines between osx, windows, and linux are blurring quickly. The only real difference between machines these days is the ui and assembly process. It's not difficult to learn mac repairs. Just don't go advertising until you know what you're doing.

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[4ycr]

If someone calls directly for mac support I usually refuse as I have not seen or touched a mac since 1992 and I don't think it is right to experiment on their computer.

However if I am asked to help when onsite for something else I usually take a quick look to see if it is anything obvious. I am however about to buy a mac mini just so I can get used to the OS and maybe offer some service in the future.

 

[Benchtech]

Hi, I'm a PC, and I'm a Mac

14yrs experience with PC's and off and on 1-2years with older mac's PowerPC gen. I'm pretty comfortable moving in and out of them hardware wise. To that end I'll support any Apple product on the hardware end of things.

They are not some magical box that takes rocket science to figure, Apple authorized or not someone had to learn from experience prior to all these CERTIFIED memorization exams. Experience can often time trump that piece of certified paper, will it always no! If I ever get stumped by something I can google (as I would expect anyone to do if they are unsure) it because 9.99:10 the issue I'm having someone else has had and there is a fix posted for it.

Are there still things I don't know, sure! But I'm not willing to let that stop me from bettering myself by not doing a job because it's an Apple product. Everything I have done up to this point in my life has made it better.

I'm still trying to find a cheap (because I'm cheap) Mac Mini Anonymous Mac Tech.

Hug a mac today, because at Apple's current speculated worth that's where the money is at for future repairs....