Not everything about the Apple Mac is good. For example, I’ve struggled with the Safari browser for months now. It’s better than IE, of course—I banished IE from my Mac a while ago, but I loaded Firefox for use on sites where Safari just doesn’t have the capability. I’ve now moved over to using Firefox permanently because it simply works. That’s one of the reasons for using the Mac itself. Usually, it just works, and it’s a shame that this is not true of Safari in some circumstances. It has specific problems with Writely.com and with ConstantContact—a site Hurwitz uses for monthly newsletters.

I remember the days of Windows when you’d buy some software or plug-in device and for some reason or other there would be complications. It isn’t that it wouldn’t work, but often it just wouldn’t work perfectly. There would be some goofy problem or other. And I’d always lose at least a day or two a year to some unexpected problem or other. Not with the Mac.

Recently I bought a USB BlueTooth capability for it, and a Wacom pen tablet. You plug such things in and they work. I had a minor problem with the BlueTooth capability. The documentation said I needed to go to Apple.com to get a driver (as opposed to loading the CD if I had a Windows machine). I searched Apple.com for mention of the driver, and couldn’t find it. Then I plugged the device in and, well it just worked. The driver was already loaded. That’s how it is. That’s how it should be.