[X4U] Advice sought on a Mac book for an elderly beginner-level user.

[Ed Graf]

On May 2, 2008, at 3:30 PM, x4u-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com  
wrote:

> Sorry to vent, but I feel your woe. She loves her computer, an  
> indigo iMac
> her son gave her. I sometimes wonder that, like the iPod, it might  
> have been
> more kind _not_ to have given it to her.


I must say, it appears to be more complicated than depicted.

My mom bought her own iMac, set it up, but then "needed me" constantly  
to copy/paste.  Got her organized on Quicken but she could barely (her  
words) set up an organizational mode to storage.  Ended up driving to  
her house much more than normal (than I really had time for - I  
thought).

After she past, following my dad, and as a part of deconstructing her  
estate, I found that she was operating five email lists and managed  
her own web-site, all on the iMac.

It took me until then, after she left, to realize all she wanted was  
to see me.

Sometimes I can be such a moron.