In the May issue of MacAddict is an ad for Earthlink, a national Internet Service Provider that wants AOL users to give up and move to Earthlink. Seriously, I have no information on how good they are, but the fact that they are willing to advertise in MacAddict means that they must have some degree of MacCluefulness. I would like to hear from gruntled and disgruntled users. Ease of Use We all know about ease of use, especially those who use Wintel at work and Mac at home. All Macs ship with system CDs that can also start the Mac, in a pinch.
Software installs directly from CDs.
No startup floppy necessary, unless the publisher has deliberately required one. Should you need to reinstall, just start from the CD and copy the system folder, and all your applications, back across. Hopefully, you have a more recent backup of your data, but the low price of CD media should encourage you to make backups every week. It depends on what you are doing, of course, but it works in most applications. Use of this is not recommended unless you have just launched a slow-loading application accidentally, or have frozen up.