blah blah I always hear the same gripes about windows, whether its the latest and greatest OS or not. I have 4 computers in my house. 1 is an XP Professional system I have to use for work as it is a corporate thing and not under my control and works fine but is about 4 years old and showing age…ie…its incredibly slow now. Another is an XP Professional system (of which I am now writing a comment with…) and my game system is Vista Ultimate 64 bit with 8 Gigs of Memory and an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 Ghz. Last but not least is an iMac with the sphere like base and flat screen which my wife uses that is now starting to show age and slowing down and/or whining a lot…
My game system is flawless and runs everything. some software you have to tell to run as administrator but so what? after that it works fine. Some games I have had trouble with but I didn’t really care because they weren’t my core game anyway which is Everquest II. Not only that, but try using more than 3GB of memory on a PC without a 64 bit OS…can’t be done. I love having 8GB of RAM.
As for business applications…Vista runs my audio software fine and I am able to edit my podcasts just fine as well as do most normal things I usually do with a computer.
It’s unfortunate Apple has gotten such a death grip on the consumer and led them to believe their computers are the end-all be-all of the everday computing platform but it’s just not so.
I will agree with nearly everyone that the iPod in all its forms is superior to most everything of its ilk out there…except maybe the Zune. Oh yeah I said it, the Zune. I prefer an open format device over proprietary device any day. That being said, I use my iPod because it was free! I won it courtesy of John Chow.com.
Anyway…my point is that its easy to bash an operating system because of defects you find that don’t suit your needs. I find it more productive to discover and use systems that meet my needs instead. If I focused on hardware and software the fell short of what I needed to do instead of focusing on what works…I would go insane because there isn’t one piece of hardware/software/operating system on the planet that accomplishes exactly everything I want it to do when I need it to do it.
Yeah, suck on that haters!
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