Becoming a Mac

When was the last time you bought a new PC? What was the first thing you had to do once you got your shiny new PC home, un-boxed, and plugged in?

I've been a PC since I can remember and bought my first PC for myself shortly after my 18th birthday. I've since bought, acquired through new jobs, upgraded, and helped others with, easily a hundred, different PCs. Every time I get my hands on a new PC it is the same story... Plug in, turn on, and start Add/Remove software. I don't even bother looking at what is there because I know from experience that there is a bunch of junk software bundled with my PC that just needs to go away. It may have been AOL or MSN software, internet service provider (ISP) software, or free demos. But there is always something to uninstall. Then there are the updates... The patches... The bug fixes.... And the newest one "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool" Ugh.

Add/Remove

By the time that I've got the computer ready, I've lost an hour of my life that I will never ever get back. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one in the world that's felt this way. I know that because the smart folks at Apple created the perfect commercial to address this flaw with the PC.

I guess one of the reasons this is really bugging me at the moment is that I've had to reinstall the Windows operating system on a couple of my old PCs due to a virus that caused havoc on them. The easiest and safest thing to do was to just use the original installation disks and wipe the drive. Not recommended if you have information thats not backed up, but not a problem in my specific case. Once I had the original installation restored I remembered how much uninstallation of junk software had to be done, again. What I hear from the Mac community is that out of the box... you are ready to go. Oh, what a dream that would be. :-) Mac Fanboys and Girls, tell me it's really true!

 

Where do I begin? I think I mentioned before,my wife is currently taking college courses online. Which means she's on the Main PC in our bedroom a whole lot doing research, responding to discussion questions, and participating in online lectures. This has really brought to light how sloooow our setup has become. I've done everything I could to speed up the computer such as...

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An old but true commercial!

I had to help a friend with his computer this weekend. Actually a couple of his computers. He had a desktop that was refusing to cooperate and I had to try to work some sort of voodoo on it.

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Just for fun...