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Apple Users

elfin

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1. Up to Sierra here on a MacBook Pro-- no problems ---- so far

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Thu Aug 30, 2018, 08:27 PM

Aug 2018

Only bad thing - old mac was Power PC and it screwed my Photoshop, but the Light version is all I need and was relatively cheap. Lost my Quark, but it was bootleg, so now use Pages for far more than I thought it could be capable of.

I hate Microsoft, so use free Libre Office, but did buy a #30 NeoOffice (which used o be free as well.)

Have a 20-year-old printer - HP - and all I had to do was to go to the net and download a different printer driver.

Have no extra security programs. Only time I had a problem was when I clicked on a google image to use in a flyer - then it seemed to lock everything up unless I called a number to pay. Scary. Finally figured out to shut off the wifi, shut down the computer, restart with no wifi, and look into the extensions to see something new that didn't belong. Ditched it. Shut down and restarted again and then turned on the wifi. All OK.

Hope all works out for you.

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Yes, Mac can be attacked (long) [View all] question everything Aug 2018 OP

Up to Sierra here on a MacBook Pro-- no problems ---- so far elfin Aug 2018 #1

"seemed to lock everything up unless I called a number to pay" mitch96 Aug 2018 #2

I've used Bitdefender Quemado Aug 2018 #3