One more reason to buy an Apple...

[SavageParrot Profile]

Right so add 10 bucks to the price of windows and include it already. It's just ghey selling a computer without the most basic software that you need. Why make it harder by making it so people have to actively go out and buy it when you can make it hassle free? No-one would care about the few extra bucks on the cost of vista when they were getting 50 bucks of software for free and microsoft would make more money because they'd get the cash from everyone and not just the one's that could actually be bothered to order it.

But then I guess that's too simple. It's much better to piss everyone with an inflated price for a pretty old and simple piece of software.

[Darknut Profile]

The funny thing is, you can download things like Virtual PC for free. You'd think that it'd be the one to cost money.

[SavageParrot Profile]

Ha ha why would they charge you for an application that lets you pay them to run 3 operating systems from the same computer?

'We can't be bothered to make our new operating sytem work properly so hey why don't you buy the previous 2 operating sytems from us and run them at the same time so you don't have to be bothered by our crappy programming and we make more cash'...

Virtual pc on the mac was hillarious. That was a case of:

'Hey why don't you pay us for a copy of windows to run badly on your mac so you can laugh at how inferior it is.'

That was the same deal actually. They generally gave you the VPC for free and then, when you tried to run it, flashed up the message that you needed to buy windows first. Um let me think...No I don't think I will thanks.

[Major Hazard Profile]

To avoid complications, I run Vmware free server and player on a couple of PCs on my home network. My Gaming PC only hits the web for visits here, microsoft and my company website. I have up to 4 Virtual PCs that I run on it with Virtual Player or Server. Each is a separate, independent install of Windows XP with disks ranging from 6 -15GB. I create each with the Vmware Virtual Server and a couple are just copies of an existing VM. Each VM has a purpose. The main one -15GB disk runs all of my MS Office apps, Email, websurfing, photoshop, HP Scanning software, Symantec A/V and asst apps etc,. I have one V< for VPN and assorted IT tools for working on my company network. Another VM is for BitTorrent and I have another VM that I use to visit questionable content such as Warez, etc. One VM is simply used for Shopping on the web without sweating that someone will snag my info from my PC.

After I fully build a VM and download all MS updates and install all the software I want. I archive a copy of the files for the VM. Should I catch a virus, or trojan or simply smoke the Windows on a VM. I copy anything I need off of the damaged VM, delete the VM, copy the archive copy back and start the recovered VM and get back to where I need to be.

No worries about viruses or trojans or any of the usual nonsense! The VMs are portable, copy to another PC with Vmware and bring the VM online there.
The only sticking issue is a good enough CPU and at least 1GB of ram to run a 512MB RAM VM. IMHO the best thing since sliced bread.

[Lord ZOG Profile]

I think sliced bread is a tad bit simpler.

How about just cleaning the virus, or avoiding them entirely. I've been pretty virus free for years because I'm not naive enough to click on anything that moves on my screen.

About the only thing that brings me down is a hard drive failure, and even then I have Windows Home Server to get me back up and running within 15 minutes.

[SavageParrot Profile]

Not so easy for us pr0n addicted to dodge viruses zog

[CodeRed68 Profile]

hey all.. just got the new iMac, 20" monitor, 2gig Ram w/ leopard o/s. 350 gig hard drive space. I love it !! So easy to use.. but does take a little getting used to where all the stuff is and how to do things if you are not used to the mac o/s. But after figuring everything out.. you see how easy it is.
I use my old Dell as my "stereo" system and run itunes on that as my whole music collection is on that hard drive too. So it sits in the same room, w/ a good speaker system but unconnected to the internet. I love the jukebox type feature of iTunes.

Go get yourself an iMac !

[nymh Profile]

Buliwyf bought me a macbook for my birthday and I love it. Have not touched my PC since February and have no desire to anytime soon.

[SavageParrot Profile]

If I wasn't so addicted to pc gaming I'd fo mac in a heartbeat. But games on a mac, they is shite.