MacPower users episode 110 sharing a Mac. Welcome back to another episode of the Mac Power Users Podcast. I'm Katie

Floyd alongside with David Sparks. Hey David! Hey Katie how you doing?

I'm good and we're sticking with the Mac again this week. You know we are Mac power users after all.

Yeah once in a while we just got to surprise people. I know.

And this is a subject that I get questions about all the time and finally just stuck it in the outline and we figured it's about time that we did a show on it.

And that is the idea of sharing a MAC.

And it's not something that I personally do quite a bit. I know you do, but a lot of our

listeners share Macs, whether it's with their spouses, with their family, with their kids,

with their grandkids, or even with colleagues in the work environment.

Yeah, that's a new one. I haven't heard of many people doing that, but I know in the family

situation it's very common to share Mac. So if you've been a Mac.

So if you've been a Mac user for a long time, which I know you were and then switched away and

then came back, the idea of user accounts was kind of a foreign concept for a while because in the OS 6, 7, 8, 9 days,

there really, I guess there were some user accounts in one, maybe in OS9 for a little while but not in any sense like there

is in Mac OS 10 which is very user account based.

I mean obviously because it's got a Unix core which is very

user-based. Yeah you know I have to admit back in the day when I was on the original

Mac and the few after that before I had to go to Windows for a few years.

There was no such thing as users, which I mean,

there wasn't even really thing as application

multitasking at that time.

But the idea of having different user accounts was completely foreign to me.

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