here's my story and im sticking to it. iv had Macs for 10 years iv only fooled around with wintell box's here and there. well in early December I sold my G3 minitower and was planning on taking the money and buy a new Mac well that didn't happen as planed. the wife has been bugging me to get a pc because she said she liked them better so having heard that Microsoft did a good job with xp I thought ok ill give this a whirl and at least ill learn the other platform. I went to the local pc store here in town and bought a board with a 950 MHz chip thinking wow! this baby going to fly compared to my 500 MHz g3. ok so I put the whole thing together for 500 bucks. got a thousand for the g3 so im 500 ahead. cant believe Microsoft is asking 200 bucks for xp I got a oem version for 130.00. so any ways I put the thing together I insert the xp disc and it ask's if I would like to format the disk fat 32 I think was the choice I click yes and 45 min later win xp is ready to install. in the mean time im thinking to my self this just doesn't seem right but im thinking now widows should install pretty quick ok so the installer ask says its checking the system for compatibility this takes about 10 minutes and then in the side window it tells me the install is going to take 52 minutes by now im shaking my head and thinking what have I gotten my self into. you have to understand it only took me about 45 minutes to put all the hardware together. the reason im telling you all this is because it has never taken me this long to format and install a Mac os. ok so the install finishes and the pc restarts I get this pretty splash screen with the xp logo that looks like its in a 16 bit color mode. by the way I have a 64 meg gforce graphics card installed. ok so here comes xp and im getting excited thinking this is going to be a great looking os. well its ok very sluggish and slow, kind of looks like they tried to copy Mac os x a little I guess the x is for ten and the p is for plagiarized, any way I go and set up email and the internet. outlook sucks on the pc compared to the Mac I would have thought that the pc version would be better NOT!!! and as for i.e. I have to say the same thing IE really sucks compared to when I had it on the Mac and thought it was the best thing Microsoft ever made. once again I would have thought the pc version would have been ten times better.so we have been using this computer for the last month and a half and the other day the wife mentioned something about how I cant wait to get a Mac again and to be honest I was just planning on sticking with this for a while and told her so. well after complaining about how she hated the Mac so platform and wanted windows for the last couple of years she confessed that she missed the Mac and that it was easier for her to work with. aahhhhhhh here I was making a sacrifice and it turned around in my favor. so what prompted me to write this long story got a email from club Mac and seen the new imac WOW!!! apple did it again what a great looking machine and the new dual 1 GHz Macs wooohooo so in may ill be able to buy a brand new Mac. iv never had a new Mac could never afford one till now so by may I should be able to get a brand new Mac. and ill let the kids have this pc to play with. hmmmm so by may prices will drop more and my be ill be able to get a 800 MHz G4 that will blow this 950 MHz pc out of the water. thanks for letting me dump.
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