My HP was shiny and black and silver, I loved it for about one year. And then, it failed. I still have it and the four discs they told me to burn when I just purchased it (thanks HP, at my hourly rate the cost of my computer just went way up) were pulled out to restore it. Didn’t restore, it choked. Hmm, not so good (to say the least). HP support couldn’t help, they tried sending me disks, still didn’t work. In hindsight, two years later I think it was the internal DVD/CD player that was failing. It took at two or three months later, couldn’t get it to work, kind of gave up. It had been running XP which I liked.
Then one day I remembered that I had MS send me a copy of Vista for free because my computer was purchased around then, I thought, okay, I will give it a shot. I managed to use it with Vista but I hated it. At least I had a computer. By then, about two years ago, the battery was dead really quick, and then the sound card was starting to go. I was getting into music at the time. Everyone was you need a Mac, you need a Mac, I was in L.A. and they love their Mac’s there, I loved agonizing everyone there saying the PC was better… However, i was finding all I was doing was technical stuff to get the thing to work. I finally got a Mac and then three months later, of course, put a duo boot Boot Camp and Parallels. Tired of carrying around two laptops. Well, as soon as I did that the problems began on my Mac. I had a 100 programs PC or so and lots of fonts and keyboard commands. But then last year I dropped it. Hard drive dead. Luckily I had a clean and easy copy of my Mac side of the computer made from Carbon Copy Clone. The PC side is so hard (some linux guy tried to help me for like 8 hours a couple months ago making a 80 mb .img file I know I will never use for an old Compaq, no thanks!) The moral is HP isn’t going to win, Palm blew it with their buggy 650 or whatever it was that I loved but that broke and screwed all the early adoptors. My $1300 HP printer is a beast, too, and bad support the one time I made the mistake of calling (the guy was pretty smart and informed. The iPhone and iTouch are brilliant and are the only game in town. He’s a maniac (Jobs) and I hate the closed nature of it, but as my music teacher told me about a Mac vs. PC. It works. That’s the main thing. And one of the guys above is right, the virus thing and all that bloatware is killing it. Bloatware is currently killing Adobe, too, and all of the nag screens to reinstall. My Mac never bugs me to install stuff or update. Everytime I turn on that Piece of Crap, it tells me it’s an emergency and I have to download this, do that, or tells me this or that. You know what? Just leave me alone to do what I want to do today, the distractions on the internet are already enough!
I love how they are saying Jobs hates Flash, if you read what he wrote, it’s very interesting and accurate. H.264 is great but reading that Microsoft is only going to ship I.E. 9 with ONE CODEC is frightening. However, if it works. I was waiting to buy my new Canon camera based on it’s codec (the old one sucked!)
Apple is going to kill it (until they get to greedy, too, already kind of are, but it’s worth the price for their products!).
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