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Macs….They Just Work!
Computers….computers….computers!!! We love them and we particularly love one particular brand. Let me tell you a little story….
You know those Sunday mornings or Saturday evenings when you are going through your last minute tech setups for Sunday morning services and you know that you need to do a special setup for the computer? Well, this particular Sunday we were doing a live poll where people text an answer to a question we put on the projection screens and the poll would display the results on the screens in real-time. The Media Director tested everything on his MacBook laptop and everything worked great the whole week prior to the service. However, come Saturday evening (the night before) he found out that the poll software would only work with Snow Leopard (the latest version of the Mac operating system) which he has on his MacBook, but on the iMac at the church we only had Leopard (the previous version to Snow Leopard)….and, of course, that won’t work for the real-time poll software that we were going to use the next morning.
The Media Director was okay with this and didn’t do anything until Sunday morning when he arrived at church. He arrived about the same time he normally arrives which is about 7am or so and decided to upgrade the whole OS on the computer right then and there. For Windows users….this is like upgrading from Vista to Windows 7. I know what some of you are thinking…. WHAT? ARE YOU CRAZY? Well, though we are crazy, he did the install as well as some software updates that were released since the OS was released and he had everything fully up and running by 8:15am with absolutely no issues!!! This was just in time to project lyrics for the full band rehearsal and for the service that started at 9am.
Two points here….first one of course is the fact that a full OS update and other software updates were installed and worked perfectly in just over an hour. Second, is the fact that no one was really worried about if it would work or not……that’s the beauty of Apple computers….they just work!
And this is why we LOVE Apple computers!!!