I am a Windows user and have been for about 10 years. When I started in multimedia and graphics development I worked exclusively in an Apple environment. I like Apple products and love the features and cool interfaces but I think they are over priced considering I can accomplish the same things with a Windows machine that I can with a Mac and not spend the money it cost to purchase Apple or Mac products. That is until Vista came along. I hate it when I hear people say that something sucks. I just think it is a very crude expression and one I rarely choose to use. That is until now. Vista sucks. And it sucks big time.
I was coerced into buying a machine with the Vista operating system on it. My laptop crashed and burned last year and I went to my favorite computer store Microcenter in Saint David's Pennsylvania to buy a new laptop. St. David's is a suburb of Philadelphia. I love this store. They have great prices and great selection. They sell computers and peripherals in what you could call a computer department store set-up. I buy all my computer stuff there.
Ok, so I'm there pricing laptops and I see one that is in my price range and it has Windows Vista factory installed. But get this I go to pay for it and I'm told it does not have enough memory to run Vista. So I ask then why is Vista installed on it? The salesman says this is just the way it comes from the factory. (Hey, if anyone reading this has any information about a class action suit regarding this rip off let me know. I'm in.) So I have to spend an additional $79.00 to upgrade my RAM in order to run Windows Vista on my new laptop.
That was last August. I get the laptop home and I find out that now my Adobe Acrobat 6.0 does not run on Vista without some major incompatibility issues. My marketing software Web Position now will not submit pages to the search engines. These are two of my most used apps that are now rendered almost useless because of Vista. Over the past 6 months Vista crashes, freezes and craps out on me more than my Windows XP system ever did. I plan on buying a new laptop soon and I'm going to insist that they install Windows XP on it or I think I'm going to have to go back to using Apple products all over again.
David Jackson
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