Idle State

Last week a friend asked me to help him buy a computer. Instantly, I suggested that he buy a MacBook. I always do this. Call me selfish, but I prefer going to the beach than spending countless hours diagnosing, recovering or teaching my friends the vagaries of a clumsy-at-best operating system.

Alas, my friend didn't have enough cash to buy the MacBook so we purchased an HP dv2-something or other. A reasonable machine. It was bundled with Vista

(cut, interior, friend's house, several frustrating hours later)

Ok - I now have this sinking feeling. What takes 10 minutes to do on the Mac (start and register the machine) has now taken about 2 hours on the Vista box. I was amused when the while-you-wait slideshow mentioned something like: "Vista gives you more time for the things you enjoy". At the bottom of the screen, we were advised to: "Please wait."

Then there's that annoying security checking all-the-freaking-time.

Already - I confess - I've learned. It's the last time I'm going to be an accomplice to a friend buying a PC. (Unless of course, they're going to return the OEM OS and install Linux).

Back to the beach.

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