Take a bite
I love my Apple. I love my MacBook. I love Mac OS X. I love aqua. I love things that work. I might sound like a fanboy, and my advice to you: bite me!
I’m writing this (on my MacBook) whilst looking at Kobie’s broken Acer laptop. I’m busy re-installing Windows - for the 3rd time in 24 hours! In that time I’ve been away for work nearly 12 hours, and sleeping about 6.
In the last 6 hours of ever-more-valuable home time, I have been wasting precious family time on the absolute bullshit of installing Windows over and over and over again. Still no promise that it’s fixed, either.
It’s also frustrated me to the point where I’m probably damn-near impossible to live with.
Why am I wasting time on Windows? If I’m going to squander away the girls’ time, it should be on something very, very worthwhile. Like my Mac.
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October 18th, 2006 at 6:04 @211
Maybe you should have done it properly the first time
Personally I feel that you have become soft, your technical abilities have decreased, since your precious Mac, you can no longer fix a simple (or complex, doesn’t matter) problem.
October 18th, 2006 at 6:42 @237
Wait until the day Victoria gets sick….
Then what? You can’t format, reload…
I think you seriously missed the boat on the shear customisability of a PC. And one day your pre-built, pre-installed, pre-beutified system is going to fail…. or blow up…. and then that frustrating Acer is going to save your ass.
Now you can view this post as another fan boy rant. Or another missinformed user rant. It is actually neither.
Have fun with your 4th (5th?) Windows reload.
October 18th, 2006 at 14:49 @576
Wherever did you get the idea that Macs are not customiseable? In fact they are MUCH more so than PCs: you can still run your dispicable Windwoze on an Intel Mac.
“…save your ass.” That’s the whole point: the Acer is SUPPOSED to be saving my ass. That’s the backup machine for Kobie when I take Victoria along to work. That’ll teach me to depend on a Windoze machine.
I am all for creating work for unemployed PC techies. They need money for cheap spirits, so who am I to deny them that. But why, oh why! should I have to sit with the crap of re-installing re-loading re-configuring re-installing re-loading re-installing re-installing?
October 18th, 2006 at 14:50 @576
Grunt, you’re right. I should have done it right the first time, and bought a Mac.
October 18th, 2006 at 16:40 @652
I am not talking software - I can run windows on a mac, or Linux… or Linux on a PC, give me some time I will have OS X running on my PC… thats not what I mean by customisability.
You give me a graphics card I can buy off the shelf to upgrade my Mac? Don’t think so. PC’s are more customisable and flexable, I can pick the EXACT GFX card, HDD, Optical drive I want - without hassels finding drivers - because they are freely available - that does NOT happen with a Mac.
As to doing it right the first time - you don’t need to support PC techies, you are supposed to be able to do it yourself. I can’t wait for the day you will need to get hold of Mac support to get you mac working again.
And I think you can’t get it right with the Acer because you expect it to break, so you subconciously break the Acer before you have even begun
February 11th, 2007 at 2:22 @098
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