A/C, not A.C. … there’s a difference.

Had to restart all of them. Especially those which had gone into emergency safe shutdown rather than just locking up.
Oops.

…or gone out of their way to find the power button, typically (in the cases where it’s been the resolution) a large circular item on the front of the device, coloured bright green and/or marked with a standby logo and a ring of light around it

or flicked the room power switch on as noted on the first line of the laminated 16-pt-arial “room use instructions” taped to the top of the flatbed PC

or made sure that the PC itself is on, while they’re standing there shaking the mouse and frantically keying in ctrl-alt-del (2nd line)

or turned the output to “PC” (smaller button next to the power switch, third line of the instructions)

or…… :-/

Oh, that and Apple’s inability to stick to interoperability standards that pretty much guarantee they’ll never get serious mass market desktop penetration. Lucky for them they have the JesusPhone platform and all, what with it’s GROUNDBREAKING ability to do video and all that. 9_9
(Sorry, I had a bad experience trying to get a user’s Keynote presentation from her Macbook onto our projector screen recently. Let’s see… does it have a VGA port? No. Does it have a DVI port? No. Mini DVI, Micro DVI, Displayport, all of which we have converters for? No. It’s Mini Displayport. WTF is that? £20 at the Apple Store in town the next day, that’s what. As for getting it out of Keynote into a form even other Mac programs could properly read, let alone our VGA-equipped PCs… forget it. Two hours spent playing with the various possibilities, the settings, and in the end even messing around the different elements inside the actual presentation that were coming out wierd, no dice. Arrrrrrggghhh. You want to talk about “crap” with me, for a moment?)

XP machines rarely, if ever, break down anymore, or crash, do any of those things that Windows users got ribbed about back in the 9x days, other than due to serious hardware faults. (Anytime I’ve seen a BSOD recently was due to a PC trying to read a system file off a dead hard disk). Which Macs are equally as prone to, if not more so, as they are little more than Intel PCs with a fancy (and not, in my mind, necessarily superior – OSX so far has been a pain) system shell, but sourced from a more limited range of suppliers. So if there’s a bad batch, a much larger proportion of the user population is affected. Restarting is for major system updates, which Unix-based OS users – including Apple – may otherwise know as kernel rebuilds or whatever. Or particularly in Apple’s case, “paying for and installing the latest update of OSX” (ie Snow Leopard). XP SP3 was free and was auto-slurped into my machine over the internet…

You’re elitist, pure and simple. And worse still, you profess this whilst having trouble telling what’s actually good, and what in spec terms are last year’s leftover base models, but tarted up with a bit of chrome and minimalist design that you only “know” is stylish because their adverts TOLD you it was so. And a bit of flashy UI magic which doesn’t _always_ work.
I’m quite happy sticking to my 3 1/2 year old, stone grey, style-less HP 12″ business laptop (that can, get this, fit in a manilla envelope, and has touch compatibility built into its copy of XP Tablet) that hasn’t needed a reinstall or missed more than a handful of beats in the time I’ve owned it for now. I’ma spend my money on things that are more entertaining and rewarding than a bit of chrome for the bits of my video-crunching, music/photo-storing portal to the internet that I can’t even see while it’s in use.

Damn, I didn’t even come in here for a flaming match, and now look.

It’s called “restarting”

call i.t.

btw, i can play nearly any game. not natively, but they run.
oh, and there are a lot of games running natively.

and yes, by now you should know my favorite one …

The label would be:
“Is it plugged in?”

“Hey come look at what this stupid computer is doing… WTF! Oh never mind.”

Great show. I have to watch a bit again now.