I converted from a Windows user to a Mac user in August of 2001. I got myself an iBook 500 after my PC was stolen out of my dorm room at the end of the previous semester.
I used that iBook the entire school year and I loved. I vowed I would never go back to a PC as my personal computer. We all know the reasons why.
Anyway, as this Spring semester came to a close I decided that I needed more from my computer. More hard drive space, a cd burner and a faster graphics card for Wolfenstein. So I sold my iBook in preperation of getting an iMac at the end of this summer.
I am now living back with my folks while I wait for my friends lease's to end (we're getting a place together) and I have been using my father's Gateway PC with Windows XP for the past month and a half.
It wasn't much of a problem at first .. then the little annoyances started. Internet Explorer crashes and wants to send an 'error report' at least once a day. The entire machine crashes once a week, on at least one occasion it crashed on me four times in twenty minutes. I went completely ape and almost threw the monitor out the window.
Norton Anti-Virus and Firewall continually bothered me about protective maintenance. Not to mention, if I had more than 5 programs open at once (ie; WinAmp, Word, Explorer, Acrobat and AIM) the computer seemed to grind to a hault.
This is not a slow computer, either. In fact, it is a rather new Pentium 4 1.4 GHz with 256 mb ram.
To top it all off, over the weekend his computer literally died. It began re-starting itself w/o any warning and loosing all sorts of data. It has now been at our local 'Gateway Country' store for 3 days with no light at the end of the proverbial tunnel.
In conclusion, when I get my new computer in about a month, it will definately NOT be a PC. I actually concidered one when my father almost got me a Sony VAIO laptop .. but I would rather spend my own money on a computer that would work the way I wanted it to, than get a free XP box.
I am actually quite bored in between summer classes today, so feel free not to respond. Just thought I'd take part in the whole 'switch' thing that's going on. I guess I can call this, www.apple.com/stay.
I used that iBook the entire school year and I loved. I vowed I would never go back to a PC as my personal computer. We all know the reasons why.
Anyway, as this Spring semester came to a close I decided that I needed more from my computer. More hard drive space, a cd burner and a faster graphics card for Wolfenstein. So I sold my iBook in preperation of getting an iMac at the end of this summer.
I am now living back with my folks while I wait for my friends lease's to end (we're getting a place together) and I have been using my father's Gateway PC with Windows XP for the past month and a half.
It wasn't much of a problem at first .. then the little annoyances started. Internet Explorer crashes and wants to send an 'error report' at least once a day. The entire machine crashes once a week, on at least one occasion it crashed on me four times in twenty minutes. I went completely ape and almost threw the monitor out the window.
Norton Anti-Virus and Firewall continually bothered me about protective maintenance. Not to mention, if I had more than 5 programs open at once (ie; WinAmp, Word, Explorer, Acrobat and AIM) the computer seemed to grind to a hault.
This is not a slow computer, either. In fact, it is a rather new Pentium 4 1.4 GHz with 256 mb ram.
To top it all off, over the weekend his computer literally died. It began re-starting itself w/o any warning and loosing all sorts of data. It has now been at our local 'Gateway Country' store for 3 days with no light at the end of the proverbial tunnel.
In conclusion, when I get my new computer in about a month, it will definately NOT be a PC. I actually concidered one when my father almost got me a Sony VAIO laptop .. but I would rather spend my own money on a computer that would work the way I wanted it to, than get a free XP box.
I am actually quite bored in between summer classes today, so feel free not to respond. Just thought I'd take part in the whole 'switch' thing that's going on. I guess I can call this, www.apple.com/stay.