In message , Brian Gaff
writes
I think he needs to actually ask himself why am I even bothering with
an out of date heap of rubbish in the first place for my main work
machine? Brian

Well, I can't ask him because he is a really good friend and we chat on
the phone about all sorts of interesting things while I Teamviewer in
and work with him on trying to sort out what he is doing.
He is by far the most interesting of the ex-colleagues and contacts that
I "support" technically as a friend.

I believe one of his publishers is a Mac fanatic and has been lobbying.
I've probably contributed by moaning about Windows 10, particularly in
its early days when it kept blowing my carefully set up specialist
drivers away and replacing them by non-working "updates".
He is still at the stage of loving his "new" Mac and telling me how
marvellous it is that he can load his old Windows writings on to it and
edit them. He says it looks so much better than his Windows machine when
they are both switched off. His work, at his age, is just a paid
enjoyable hobby. Sadly, we are both too old to chase girls.

I'm quite happy about dipping a toe in the Mac water and getting a bit
of hands on experience with it without spending any money but, of
course, as I'm not at the machine, I haven't seen what a Thunderbolt
port looks like.

I do notice that Teamviewer, when used Windows to Windows lets us
"share" the mouse cursor, so that he or I can wiggle the cursor to say
"look at this". With Windows to Mac, I see my cursor on his screen, but
I can't see his cursor when he moves it.
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Bill

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