Oh joy – yesterday by main PC, the desktop, whimpered and died. Found out today that my C drive died. So i bought another one and now I’m going to spend the next 24 hours (if I’m lucky) installing Windows XP (cuz none of my so-called ‘friends’ at Microsoft have given me a freebie copy o Vista to “review”), XP Service Pack 2, XP patches 1 – 2978, Office, Adobe Everything, etc etc etc. GRRRR.
It shouldn’t be this hard.
I want a PC that need nothing installed.
I want a PC where components don’t die every few years.
I want a PC that is designed to humans, not one where I have to learn what SATA means.
I want a PC that will recognized there is a keyboard plugged in so I *can* actually hit ENTER to installed the frakkin operating system.
It’s 2007. We’re supposed to have HAL by now. My PC doesn’t even know I have a keyboard plugged in. What went wrong…
i assume u r in denial for not getting a mac which solves all your stated issues. pc is dead. unless u r running vista on the most soup’d up thing u’ve ever seen and can custom program it.
Exactly Cam… what went wrong?!?! (With the pc mean, not you)
the hard drive just shat itself.
Gets worse – so I pulled all the other drives out, installed the new hard drive amnd the new graphics card (cuz the other one has been on its way out for a while), turned the PC on… it asks me for a Windows CD… okay, put that in, hit ENTER to install Windows… but the PC wouldn’t recognize the keyboard. So I pulled the USB connector off the KB, stuffed it in the old round socket, and re-booted the PC. Now nothing happens. No screen. No boot. No BIOS. Nothing.
Frakkin PCs. I hate ’em.
Damm Ben beat me too it, you could buy a Mac 😉
Hang on, have you heard Cams experience with Apple Products? If you ask me, he should buy a Dell! Get 3 years warranty and life is a breeze!
Molly
I agree. I’m not a total geek and don’t want to have to learn all this stuff. Keyboard and a monitor is all i want, really. As an amateur, i shouldn’t be in charge of my own storage and maintenance and hardware and installation. Don’t know anything about it and don’t want to know.
I just think Cam and technology don’t work.
Yea if you MUST have a PC just go to Dell. The better option of course is to get a Mac. I should have one to get rid of soon when I upgrade mine. Then again you will want an intel mac anyways and mine is only PowerPC.
Thats right TOny, Get a Mac and put it next to your Beta max video player. They are about as useful as each other.
Molly
Cam said;
I want a PC that need nothing installed.
Yeah… it’s called a Mac. Join the iCult, man!
I finally convinced my brother to buy a Mac when he was looking for a new PC. He bought it, took it home, took it out of the box, plugged it in, turned it on, and BOOM! It was up and running. No OS to install. No fooling around with drivers. It just worked. And he had a wireless router set up for the kid’s PC and the Mac had the Internet connection found and configured for use before he even thought to check into it. “I just hit the browser icon, and suddenly I was on the Internet.”
Yeah… Mac’s aren’t the end-all of computers, they have their place and uses and their a bit more expensive than your Windoze PC, but they work! And you don’t generally have to fark around a lot with them to get them to do the job you want them to do.
I have a PC and a Mac–I use my PC for games and general surfing, but if I really want to do some serious work (like photo editing), I use the Mac.
Which reminds me that I need to upgrade my PC…again. Because my 64 Meg video card just isn’t enough anymore and my 120 Gig HD just isn’t big enough anymore… And Vista? Forget it! I’m not even going to touch Vista for another couple years.
Hear we are again, on another religious debate and yet again I am on the side of good fighting evil! 😉
Molly
i know you like to stay on the legit path but out their on the big wide internet some hacker put together a disc, a disc that included all the service packs. a disk that all the hotpatchs included. and ontop of that included a corp key and the tweak ui. there is also someing called xp auto update i think. tho i can’t tell anymore as i have also been having computer problem. brought a new hdd 320gb pata. it works great only prob it would not format. well slamed it in my bros pc. it works excatly as it should. then i do a mem test on my own pc. seems ram is on way ot or mobo. which sucks. 🙁 also because the ram is on the way out. the first format i had on the disc worked but after transfering 40+gb of data then ram started to die i lost it all. so now i have to go on the big wide internet for more xp fun :).
p.s. i do have a legit cd and key of xp. it just sucks about patchs and getting it activated.
wow. rereading my own post. my grammer/spelling is way off. their = there ??? wtf was i thinking for that to happen
What it comes down to Molly is do you want to be a security expert, have to spend hours reconfiguring your machine everytime something bad happens, spend ages looking for driver updates or anything else when you get new hardwarer.
If the answer to any of those is yes then get Windows. if you want to turn your computer on and it works, get a Mac.
Vista == bad.
Security theater pop-ups.
Resource sucking user interface.
No VPN support.
Slooooow Explorer response times.
What’s to like?
smp
Tony, If you want that to stay true, you should stop selling people on Macs. Reason: More people using Macs more reason for people to learn how to hack into them. The problem with PC’s/Windows is that there two dam popular.
If you want security, go to Linux or better yet, don’t go on the internet.
On the Hardware drivers, its a trade off. You have money to spend over the odds to get hardware from one supplier then go with a Mac. Want choice, go for a PC. I never have to search far, I just go to Dell. 😉
(real question not a dig) How does a Mac not need reconfiguration when you change Machines?
Molly
There is a great little tool, can’t remember it’s name right now but maybe one of other guys can, that when you get a new machine you hook them up, run the program and it copies over all your settings, applications if you wish and a ton of other things.
This can be done over firewire or ethernet and your good to go on your new machine. I used it when I went from Mac Mini to iMac.
Your right about the popularity of PC’s but depite that Windows XP still has a gazillion security holes in it 5 years after it was released. I can accept a system having holes that need to be fixed as 2 billion people using a system will expose more issues than any beta program will but after 5 yrs still having issues is a stretch. The other issue is it takes so long for them to fix issues once they are aware of it.
I am not saying Mac isn’t vulnerable either. Apparently the patch I downloaded last night reportedly fixed 45 security issues inside Tiger so it has it’s flaws as well. You are right in that Linux is probably the most secure sytem, and I did try Linux and various versions of it before I decided to go to Mac. It was pretty good on the majority but maybe I am not geeky enough and all the iff versions and the way you have to do a lot of things in Linux was confusing so I decided to go for a system that made sense and was secure.
The other thing is I think Tiger has a much better and logical interface and is also a lot easier to pick up and learn. A fact that Windows made for everyone by using so many Tiger like features in Vista, too bad they are 2 years old.
I hear you Cam, loud and clear. I do classify myself as a bit of a geek, but when it comes to hardware and those buggy PC issues I can easilly end up in a crying heap on the floor. I rebuilt my PC a few months ago and have had nothing but trouble since. The thing just turns off and on when it wants to, freezes when it wants to and re-boots every time I use a USB port (ie printing and syncing my Ipod). I hope that I have narrowed most of it down now to a dodgy TV tuner card, but that doesn’t explain the USB issues. I just want to chuck the whole thing and get a new Dell/Vista setup or a Mac Book (but only after Leopard comes out), but either option is out of my price range at the moment… so it’s battle on with a heap of crap and back up regularly until it really dies.
I think you will find there are similar utilities to help move between PC’s also.
Molly
Well I’ve just ordered a new PC. Lenovo tower. Dual Core. Wish me luck.
Haha! PC wins again!
Should of went for Dell though dude! 3 year support is sweet. Hope to be buying and upgrade to my trusty 5 year old dell mid year, all going well.
Molly
I’ve heard horror stories abt the Mac as well… I just know if I went the Mac route, I’d get a lemon
ugh!
Brand new iMac straight out of the box last Oct. Put it on the desk plugged in the power cable. Wireless mouse and key board. No leads just the power cable. Press power button… It all connects, I put in my personal info, that’s all.
Start playing… there is nothing else to do, it’s done. Nothing else!
But to my surprise I’m on the net, but how? Remember just the power cable.
Well F*#k me I’ve connected to the neighbours wireless connection. I’m sooo technically unsavvey that I didn’t even realise how for three days.
I know nothing about computers, I don’t care! I just want the end result. So I got a mac.
And when I’m not on it, it sits there with it’s 24″ beautiful framed high resolution images scrolling past and I have a constant art gallery in my home. Yum.
I got a mac
Ian, the same thing would happen if you had a Dell with a wireless card in it!
Molly
Hey Cam, can you post the specs up of what you ordered, and the price, I’m very interested for when I finally decide to take the plunge…