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The Worst Review that I Have Ever Read

Posted on May 24, 2006

I have just read the worst review that I have ever come across.

The review was of a guy that was trying to install a “near” beta 2 of Windows Vista (you can read the review here). The reason why this was bad was because the guy is obviously an idiot. The first things was that he was trying to install the OS on a laptop which anyone knows is 10 times hard (driver wise) then on a desktop.

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I am not going to buy a Mac

Posted on April 14, 2006

NOTE: This post was written back in early 2006 and I still gets a lot of traffic to it. Since that time I have purchased a Mac and am very happy with my decision. The points that I bring up in this post about the hardware to hardware comparisons is true but my experience with comparing OS X to Vista or XP makes the difference.

From my experience OS X does much more with lower performing hardware then Microsoft is capable of. My Dell Dimension has been completely replaced by a Mac Mini EXCEPT for the gaming aspect. For gaming you need to consider an iMac or better. In reference to security, I do not even run virus software on my Mac and if you do any research the general consensus is that it is not needed for Macs.

Finally, my conclusion on Macs being a “status symbol” is no longer a valid point. That is not what pushed me to buy the Mac. My bad experience with Windows Vista got me looking. I do think Macs are better quality as a whole but I also believe Macs are a little more main stream now then they were back in early 2006.

Anyway, on to the original article…

I have been wanting to jump on the Mac band wagon for a while. I was even excited when Apple announced that I could run Windows on a Mac (see my post here). I thought in my mind “Wow, I can finally have a Mac, and I won’t be ‘missing out’ any longer”.

There was even this guy at Make Me Switch who was asking for people to donate so he could have a nice new iMac. I donated $10 to the guy because yes, everyone should have a nice new Mac in their house.

So I started to formulate my plan to retire my perfectly good 1 year old Dell which has not given me any problems. I was going make it into a media center to play videos because after all “it was just a lowly PC’. I even went to the apple.com web site to decide which Mac I was going to get when I could afford it.

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Windows on a Mac

Posted on April 5, 2006

Well it has finally happened, You can easily run Windows XP on an Intel based Mac.

Apple has released a new software package called Boot Camp. The software has a pretty simple wizard that burns all the drivers that you need for Windows XP on a disk and then sets up a “partition” for the Windows installation. Then when you boot your machine Mac up, hold down the CTRL Mac key to get a boot menu – Windows or Mac OS. Pretty slick. I guess Apple figures that if you can’t beat em’ join em’.

This is good news for me because I have been wanting a Mac for a while but really could not justify the higher price and the need for a new computer (my dell desktop is only 1 year old). Also, all the software that I have is for Windows and purchasing all the same software for Mac does not make sense.

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