26th August 2007, 1:34 AM
An 80 year old grandma doesn't know how to access regedit to begin with. I know this myself from my own. There's no worries there.
I'm fully aware of what Apple is trying to do by locking up certain customization options like that. I know it's an issue of idiot proofing. I've talked, at length, about this before on this board myself a number of times. I still would prefer the option, and generally any OS that wants to grant it simply need keep the system locked as a "default" option and allow the user that knows what they are doing to unlock "advanced" mode. Certainly during a system install selecting such a mode from the start would make it easier on me than having to run through all the hidden menues unlocking things slowly bit by bit. If the average user is the sort that actually would immediatly always select "advanced", label it something else I guess, but I would like it there.
I'm fully aware of what Apple is trying to do by locking up certain customization options like that. I know it's an issue of idiot proofing. I've talked, at length, about this before on this board myself a number of times. I still would prefer the option, and generally any OS that wants to grant it simply need keep the system locked as a "default" option and allow the user that knows what they are doing to unlock "advanced" mode. Certainly during a system install selecting such a mode from the start would make it easier on me than having to run through all the hidden menues unlocking things slowly bit by bit. If the average user is the sort that actually would immediatly always select "advanced", label it something else I guess, but I would like it there.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)