From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2005-10-05T23:06:49+09:00
Subject: Re: OFF Topics :: PC-laptop or Powerbook


Damphyr wrote:

> I've been working exclusively with laptops for the past 6 years and all
> of them were windows boxes. I love the Powerbook and if you can get away
> from the window world I would say go for it. Much less administration to
> worry about, a lot less re-formatting, less viruses, less threats and
> more stability.
> All of the above are Windows problems and not laptop problems. I've had
> to work with all the Dells from C800 to D840. Amazing resolutions but
> some flaky memory chips and hard disks meant we had the Dell guy once a
> month in the office. [snip rest]

I've had a Dell Inspiron 8000, running Windows, for 5 years now.
Hardly a single problem.  No Dell guy from the office, ever.  No
viruses, reformatting (except to change from Win2K to WinXP), or
threats.  Instability, yes -- a graphics driver conflict that annoyed
me for a while, but nothing compared to my experiences with Linux
graphics problems.

Perhaps I'm just lucky, but I think people should take more
responsibility for their systems and not blame a certain commercial OS
for _everything_!

Don't get me wrong; I'm no one-eyed Windows fan.  I dig Linux and drool
over every OSX-based product I see.  But I like to see things kept in
perspective.

Cheers,
Gavin