I've had it with Microsoft Windows

[Neil]

Off topic I know but my PC at work has got more poke than the Starship Enterprise!!! :mrgreen:

PCs, pah.

This is surely one of those moments where a thread has taken a turn for the "THAT's a knife." Crocodile Dundee moments.

 

[JamesM]

It's an HP Z800 Workstation with two liquid cooled 6 core Xeons!!!
I use it for like Word and sending emails and stuff

 

[Rusty Scrubber]

 

[JamesM]

Touche!!!

 

[silverclaws]

Nasty really, I lent my MBP to a friend for a few days so he could create a movie on it using I movie, it was an urgent job. Now my pal had never used a Mac before, but after his time was up and I wanted my machine back he did say he had completed the movie and the Mac, he taught himself fast, because it is very true, Mac's are intuitive, he was surprised how so. But he did have something to say about the mousepad though, this thing is weird, it still gets me sometimes with its weirdness, but I did say to my pal I had forgotten to tell him a windows keyboard and mouse are compatible with the Mac, just plug in and use as a pc.

Mac on the whole they are good machines and well packaged with a battery life that lasts about eight hours on mine depending what I am doing, backlit keyboard that lights up when it senses light levels are low, superb sound and vision, but Mac's have problems, what I mentioned in a previous post and Apple are keeping schtum about it, yet still selling machines with the same fault to add yet more unhappy customers to their online community. From user geeks the problem has been traced down to the OS and the wireless card, anything before snow leopard seems okay and anything before intel processors seems okay, so perhaps Mac should have left intel alone.

But anyhow airport extreme card, twenty quid new on ebay then will see.

 

[mattbrown]

my girlf lappy had vista, absolute awful, you had to wait 5 min after boot up before you could use it. virtually no program installed on it. wiped and put windows 7, speedy any anything. I cant fault win7, love it, only problems I had are due to hardware.

 

[Tad]

Been using Ubuntu and puppy for about 3 years now. I still have a craptop that dual boots with Windows for the the odd bit of software that I can't find a Linux alternative for.

Mac? The scene tax is just waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too high.

 

[Neil G]

Win7 rocks. In every single way. Horses for courses. For the novice, Macs work well in terms of simplicity. At the other end of the scale they exploit their proprietary nature well to provide solutions to focussed high end users.

Windows Seven has brought so much to the table in terms of compatibility, (with other W7 machines), and ease of use it puts most prior iterations of Windows in the shade.

I would struggle to argue for other operating systems given a decent spec machine.

Agree, very impressed with Win 7 and by all accounts is a very versatile OS that you can do a lot with if you have the know how.

 

[sylus]

I use a totally reliable method of sending information.

I have become quite an expert at it and it never needs updates nor does it crash or suffer from virus's

it's called a pen and paper and combined with an envelope and stamp then I can communicate without a plug or battery and all for 60 pence.

 

[Chopper the ex Copper]

I'm not a pooter bod by any means butvive never suffered any problems with windows. That said I replace my pooter ever 2 years (tax deductible do its not too expensive ) so I never get in the situation where I'm trying to run bang up to date memory hungry software on a 5 year old machine.