Sorry for my sore lack of blogging. I'll offer the excuse of creating a new blog for the company and trying to pre-write a lot of content for it. But it is just an excuse.
What got me to want to write this morning is my laptop, and it's weird effects on my current computer outlook. It's just over 3 years old, but it's still got decent enough specs to do just fine for most things (dual core, 2gb RAM, 256mb dedicated video). It needed a clean install about 8 months ago, so I put a nice, fresh copy of XP on there (not Vista approved).
What's got me is that it's so much crap for Windows to be there. I'm fine with the occasional patch update, but the frequent "validation" of my completely legit software pisses me off to no end. I'm software legit, and I don't like having my computer automatically question the legitimacy of my copy of Windows at regular intervals when I completely registered/activated it from the start.
I've had the OS X machine for around 18 months, and it still runs well without problems that couldn't be fixed with basic troubleshooting... And I punish that machine with a lot of intensive work. When I'm not working on it, it's doing charitable computing... It's one hell of a machine. And I've never had to validate the OS other than upgrading from 10.4 to 10.5.
Anyway, on a side note... I am really getting sick of the marketing on both sides. Apple is getting trivial and overusing a campaign, and Windows has just never got advertising to the likes of me (especially hiring actors and calling them regular people).
I'm still looking forward to Windows 7, just not as much as I would have been if things like this didn't happen.
2 Comments
1 Hungry Hank wrote:
Yeah, I'm happy I switched to a Mac a few months ago. All the little issues that come with a PC are missing and it's "miraculously" has the ability to connect to my wireless network with ease ... something my PC constantly has issues with.
Even so, Justin Long can still get on my nerves most days (unless he's playing Superman's gay lover).
2 B wrote:
I had no idea you switched over to the other team... It took a long time for Mac to win me over. Now Windows has the task of winning us back.