the plunge
So I've finally taken the plunge, albeit by proxy; there is now a mac in the house. I was quite intrigued about the setup process on the mac since I've never used, let alone set one up before, so we sat down together for the grand opening.
Just as we turned on the mac and clicked the first setup option I got a call for PC help from my brother with in law who recently bought a new laptop running XP. Thankfully windows has really nice remote assistance options which allowed me to take control and sort the problem out. The problem was that when you get a new machine running windows it never just has windows on it. It has windows plus some custom sound management drivers, plus custom sound software, plus custom cd burning software, not forgetting the custom wireless, network and bluetooth configuration applications, also with the sponsored chat client installed, with the appropriate ads and of course the 5 different links to trouble shooting and help documents and also including custom drivers for the mouse, trackpad or touchpad, plus some floaty desktop widget to control some of the custom stuff, plus a custom firewall, plus some spyware and adware controls, plus the laptop maintenance utilities, display configuration utils and finally of course a custom power management interface. The problem with all of that is that absolutely none of it is needed, because they all come with windows. (Additionally, in the case of my brother in law's laptop, there was so much crap on there that the apps actually conflicted with each other). In fact, not only do they come with windows, but the guys at microsoft spent much more time thinking about how it should look and work, the guys that wrote the software were better and they all got paid more for it. So why oh why do I need to spend hours of my time removing a load of crap from a computer that never needed to be there in the first place, then patching up the holes? Because microsoft don't sell the hardware.
By the time I had finished with mymass uninstalling session support request to make the brand new laptop bearable, not only had my absolutely non-tech savvy wife who had never used a mac before finished the mac setup and created her user account, she had also connected to the wireless network, transferred her contacts from her phone to her mac address book with bluetooth, synched iCal with her google calendar, setup up her desktop preferences (screensaver, dock prefs, region stuff etc) and she also had enough time to spare to take a few snaps with the built in camera and play with all of the apps that came with the machine while all the time squealing with pleasure at the nice little features that she experimented with and they just worked. Yesterday was a good day for the mac and a bad one for the pc.
Mac vs PC, 1:0
Just as we turned on the mac and clicked the first setup option I got a call for PC help from my brother with in law who recently bought a new laptop running XP. Thankfully windows has really nice remote assistance options which allowed me to take control and sort the problem out. The problem was that when you get a new machine running windows it never just has windows on it. It has windows plus some custom sound management drivers, plus custom sound software, plus custom cd burning software, not forgetting the custom wireless, network and bluetooth configuration applications, also with the sponsored chat client installed, with the appropriate ads and of course the 5 different links to trouble shooting and help documents and also including custom drivers for the mouse, trackpad or touchpad, plus some floaty desktop widget to control some of the custom stuff, plus a custom firewall, plus some spyware and adware controls, plus the laptop maintenance utilities, display configuration utils and finally of course a custom power management interface. The problem with all of that is that absolutely none of it is needed, because they all come with windows. (Additionally, in the case of my brother in law's laptop, there was so much crap on there that the apps actually conflicted with each other). In fact, not only do they come with windows, but the guys at microsoft spent much more time thinking about how it should look and work, the guys that wrote the software were better and they all got paid more for it. So why oh why do I need to spend hours of my time removing a load of crap from a computer that never needed to be there in the first place, then patching up the holes? Because microsoft don't sell the hardware.
By the time I had finished with my
Mac vs PC, 1:0
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