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.
vista rules and you know it.
ReplyDeleteit's like, if Apple outsourced their software to the Eastern Bloc company who made the Yugo, what came back would be Vista.
ReplyDeleteI fought the move to Vista for a long time but I'm over it.
ReplyDeleteit'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.
ReplyDeleteWe'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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