took advantage of CYBER MONDAY (which makes me think of sex-crazed nerds on AIM desperately typing each other to a ZORK-style climax) to order a new comp.
My main machine had a mobo problem, so I've been using the backup for a while and lately it has begun reminding me why I replaced it.
Dell had a deal going for a pretty good machine for the price of a new motherboard for the old box, so I bit.
So far so good, although it came with VISTA (I prefer XP, but the bastards wanted to charge me for it).
Vista, what can I say.
It is the penultimate expression of Microsoft's decades-long desire to possess Apple's casual elegance. Alas, they've gone about it like the cannibal who thought eating Einstein's brain would make him a genius.
In concrete terms, Vista plays Zune to Apple's iPod.
Oh well- if it annoys me enough I can wipe the drive and slap my old copy of XP down like a coat of fresh paint.
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vista rules and you know it.
it's like, if Apple outsourced their software to the Eastern Bloc company who made the Yugo, what came back would be Vista.
I fought the move to Vista for a long time but I'm over it.
it's ugly and annoying (hey, I have a great idea- let's HIDE the off switch!) but I'll probably end up being too lazy to wipe the drive and switch back to XP.
We'll see...
I had never thought that the words "you are about to be eaten by a grue" had a sexual connotation...till now.
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