Macs Really Do Run Windows Better
Steven Frank, from Panic, writes an absolutely hilarious tale of his quest with Windows on a Sony Vaio. What made the story funny was the fact that so much of it rang absolutely true for me. I had a very similar experience a few years ago when I was setting up my wife’s (my girlfriend at the time) new Dell laptop. It was so riddled with trailware that I just wanted to format the laptop and start fresh. The problem is that Dell does not include the Windows install desk, WHICH YOU PAY FOR! The lack of a included Windows disk forced me to spend my time weeding through uninstallers and combing the file system to remove the loads of junk included on the laptop. I’ve already told my wife her next laptop is going to be a Mac (she just bought a Mac for her work last week!).
I’ll also second Steven’s experience with downloading drivers. I spend my days working on IBM desktops and laptops so I know what he went though to get the drivers. To this day it baffles me that I have to click a thousand links to download drives which are wrapped in an IBM installer which serve no function other to unzip them to a randomly named directory. There simply has to be an easier way.
[Via Daring Fireball]
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