'Microsoft' Category
Worse than I expected (Vista)
Very brief, not comprehensive rundown of the myriad problems I’ve encountered with Microsoft Vista Home Basic on my cheap-o Dell Outlet Pentium Dual Core/2gb RAM/integrated graphics/160 HD box:
numerous lockups that eventually require a hard restart
difficulty installing an external USB hard drive (required creating a Environmental Variable to show non-working USB devices, finding it in DevMgr [...]my new home PC
As much as i would like to have a Mac, I bit the bullet the other day and got a new PC from the Dell Outlet. Even refurbished, a new Mac would be over $1000. I got a Dual Core Pentium Vostro w/ Vista, a wireless card and a DVD writer for $219 , under [...]
ditto (re: Windows 7)
http://speakquietly.blogspot.com/2008/06/windows-7.html
I really think Vista represents a turning point (downward) for Microsoft, and welcome a change in the computing landscape.
That said, my experience with Vista is minimal and I realize I need to spend more time with it. As an administrator, I do think Group Policy is the best thing since 2000 arrived…but it is so [...]Why my next home computer MIGHT be a Mac. Or might not…
Why?
Winrot.
Love Love Love the Macbook I use at work.
Similarly, my iPod Nano is my favorite tech purchase of all time.
An OS that gets out of my way.
Almost everything I do now is web-based. MSFT Office, and other WinApps are nearly irrelevant to me now.
Paralells for when they aren’t (e.g. Quicken. And what else? Hmmm….)
iTunes is [...]
