Bye Bye Windows
Soon, by God’s well, I will be using a new laptop. A laptop that does not have Windows in it. It will be a bit dark, I will no more see the BLUE sky. My visitors will also have to use the front door. Windows are no longer there for sneaking behind, and my Guards will also have more time to rest. It will be more solid as a rock, and I won’t need to call for help repairing my broken Windows. It will also be more quite and cold, without Windows hard workers noise will not reach my ear, and the heat will not step through my door.
People who know me know I am not a guy of luxury. I would spend however a lot of money for efficiency. Being a developer means I go playing with softwares all day long, configuring my development environment once and get going after then. The nightmare however keeps haunting me. Someone is going to jump right through my Windows, and I won’t be able to get him out, unless I build the whole house from scratch again. I buy the best piece of hardware, and be so careful with software. Yet, Windows keeps amazing me how fast it can make me cry. It is less than two years of careful PC usage and my Windows keeps restarting every few minutes. I tried everything from check disk, to disable all hibernate, sleep mode, and even Automatic Restart on Failure. They all failed. System Restore is another mystery from Windows that didn’t seem to make it out of Alpha. I don’t think I will live the day to see it working! I had it enabled with full Disk Space usage (I gave it faith) and it still fails to restore to any point. It does not give the single point of hint why it failed, and just asks you to try until you die. The Error Reporting is another disaster. The only time I got a reply was when a video player crashed, I sent the report and immediately got the response. Error Cause was that Video Player, resolution was to uninstall it!
Well Microsoft, what goes around comes around. The cause of failure is Windows and I am leaving it behind. I am welling to pay few bucks more than to live a slave for my PC. Within the last year, I got my brothers buying Toshiba laptop each as the best choice in the market, one of them had to format within a month to overcome a virus, and the other is already getting the blue screen in less than 3 months time of use. Linux was my second choice, but from what I’ve seen Mac is so much powerful and faster. That’s what I want. Recently, I have got Apple MacBook Pro for two of my friends, and I just can’t see them any happier. The difference in price is considerable, but if you are a heavy user, have lot of work and hate to hear those cranking sounds and wait few seconds just because you clicked My Computer, then it’s worth it. I will keep my computer running Windows for the family, testing, use it for some of the stuff that does not run on Mac, like video games (I just can’t quit adventure games that easy), but my real work is going to be residing on Mac. Here is the laptop I got my eyes on for your interest.
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I left IE, no issues. In fact life is much better. Same thing goes for Windows. Man even Amiga was more solid!
and by the way, you don’t you just use your real name ;)
think I dont know you
Nice.
I already have my own Macbook 1.8 Core-Doe 2 GB RAM. CD-RW/DVD-ROM 13.3″.
And I am enjoying every second of it.
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You can get a refurbished one from Apple.com for $1,599.00 only. (a saving of 250 USD) +free shipping.
link
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Mabrook Ya Bu Muhammad…
I am on the same way enshallah … but I am not sure which is better, a MacBook or a Mac Pro (PowerMac) ?? I cant afford buying both of them.
By the way, did you purchase it with the new Apple OS (Leopard Sneak Peek) ??
As Qwaiti said, Leopard is coming I heard in March, not sure though. Perhaps we should both wait to see the difference in features, and PRICE!
I am going for MacBook Pro, but just have to decide on the version. Click the link to see which version I bought.
If it will be released in march I think it worth to wait for it ..
I think I am going to buy MacBook Pro as both of you guys recommend.
should I purchase it from apple online store or there is other places cheaper ??
Well, I don’t know. But every time I buy from somewhere other than Amazon, I regret it. Price at Amazon should be very competitive, and their service is excellent.
[...] A while back, I posted the Bye Bye Windows article, which got the most views and unique comments so far. The problem I had was that suddenly, my computer went on restarting every few minutes. I had no time to update, backup or do anything. Even Check Volume for errors could not finish successfully for most of the time. I am still looking for Leopard release of Mac Book Pro to move away from Windows, however for people who will keep using Windows, I got my part of the story to share for end user benefit. After several attempts of restore, and update, Windows Error Reporting finally gave back useful hints. I think they had it with my Send Error every few minutes so they decided to help me out. The problem turned out to be a conflict with my ATI Radeon X600 PRO video card. There was an optional update on Windows Update that was more crucial than all other critical updates, at least to me, and possibly other thousands of users around the world. Getting the update, after knowing it was tough by it self, since my PC kept restarting all the time, until I managed to get it right, and after then everything went fine. [...]
man ma radek for windows .