That's it! I am switching over!
My wife has been telling me for a while now how using a Macintosh and its amazing OS X environment was so much more pleasant than #$@% Windows.
I am so over Windows right now. I won't write up a list of all the problems I have been confronted with, but it is simply amazing to me that so many people still use this unreliable piece of crap to work every day.
Lately, Outlook has decided to go on strike for no apparent reason. Unfortunately, I still need to use this software as I have a ton of emails that I need to get access to (yes I did archive them).
Now, Microsoft is touting another major piece of junk called Vista. Just by looking at the requirements, I can already see this thing is a joke. I ran their "Vista ready assessment software" and I found out that my machine won't be able to run Vista. So, I will have to buy YET another computer.
If I have to change my PC, I am going to change for good and buy a Mac. Now that Apple uses Intel CPUs I could even run Windows (I know I won't be able to entirely get rid of it, unfortunately) in a virtual machine, so that when it craps out (and it will, we all know Windows is not reliable) it will be in its own sand box.
Let's do the math here:
Option 1: I buy a new PC with Vista to run it. I obviously will have to spend about $1,000 to get something decent to run Vista. I have to re-learn an interface that Microsoft completely reshuffled just for the sake of it and will have to go through the pre-SP2 hell (we all know that an MS product is not stable before SP2 minimum.)
Option 2: I buy a Mac with OS X. Depending on what I want to do, I could get a Mac mini (dual core, 1 Gb of RAM, wireless keyboard and mouse) for about $1,000 too. I get to work on OS X that I already know and have access to Unix (since OS X is built on top of BSD.) As a complimentary feature, I get to work on a machine that doesn't crap out here and there without any warning.
In both cases, I won't have to buy a screen, since I would reuse the one I already have on my desk.
For most people, it makes sense to buy a Mac. If all you do is email, surf the web, edit a spread sheet or write a document in a word processor, Windows is not necessary. Even for those that have one or two applications that run only on Windows (like Visio), buying a Mac makes a lot of sense since you can still run Windows in a virtual machine by using a software like "Parallels" and still have access to your Windows only applications.
By forcing people to buy a new machine to run Vista, Microsoft is offering Apple an amazing opportunity to grab market shares since there is the cost of changing the hardware for both options. If we are forced to change the whole machine, then let's change for a better system.
My decision is made; my next machine won't be a Windows PC.
I am so over Windows right now. I won't write up a list of all the problems I have been confronted with, but it is simply amazing to me that so many people still use this unreliable piece of crap to work every day.
Lately, Outlook has decided to go on strike for no apparent reason. Unfortunately, I still need to use this software as I have a ton of emails that I need to get access to (yes I did archive them).
Now, Microsoft is touting another major piece of junk called Vista. Just by looking at the requirements, I can already see this thing is a joke. I ran their "Vista ready assessment software" and I found out that my machine won't be able to run Vista. So, I will have to buy YET another computer.
If I have to change my PC, I am going to change for good and buy a Mac. Now that Apple uses Intel CPUs I could even run Windows (I know I won't be able to entirely get rid of it, unfortunately) in a virtual machine, so that when it craps out (and it will, we all know Windows is not reliable) it will be in its own sand box.
Let's do the math here:
Option 1: I buy a new PC with Vista to run it. I obviously will have to spend about $1,000 to get something decent to run Vista. I have to re-learn an interface that Microsoft completely reshuffled just for the sake of it and will have to go through the pre-SP2 hell (we all know that an MS product is not stable before SP2 minimum.)
Option 2: I buy a Mac with OS X. Depending on what I want to do, I could get a Mac mini (dual core, 1 Gb of RAM, wireless keyboard and mouse) for about $1,000 too. I get to work on OS X that I already know and have access to Unix (since OS X is built on top of BSD.) As a complimentary feature, I get to work on a machine that doesn't crap out here and there without any warning.
In both cases, I won't have to buy a screen, since I would reuse the one I already have on my desk.
For most people, it makes sense to buy a Mac. If all you do is email, surf the web, edit a spread sheet or write a document in a word processor, Windows is not necessary. Even for those that have one or two applications that run only on Windows (like Visio), buying a Mac makes a lot of sense since you can still run Windows in a virtual machine by using a software like "Parallels" and still have access to your Windows only applications.
By forcing people to buy a new machine to run Vista, Microsoft is offering Apple an amazing opportunity to grab market shares since there is the cost of changing the hardware for both options. If we are forced to change the whole machine, then let's change for a better system.
My decision is made; my next machine won't be a Windows PC.
posted by A Cat in California at 11:17:00 AM
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