Last week I posted about getting a new Dell Inspiron 1525 with Vista. A few expressed their concern over me taking a Vista machine over a Mac. Not as many as I thought. Let me first defend myself. I’m not an Apple hater. I even posted a blog post on what I like about Apple. I’m just not ready to go back… yet.
To be honest, I don’t know how some of you do it. Do you not at all feel a little demasculated carrying around a little dainty computer? Every time I use one, I feel like I’m going to break it if I type too hard. Does using an Apple make you want to stick your pinky out while sipping your morning coffee? (I’m willing to bet I’m going to get a few comments on this little paragraph)
Nah, I’m just kidding. Okay, back on subject. I’ve been using Vista for a week and I must say that it’s not all that bad. To be honest, I don’t feel like it’s all that different from XP. As cool as the Aero looked before Vista released, it’s just eye-candy. I haven’t had any driver problems. I still don’t know where everything is, but my experience has been without any incidents. Perhaps my experience would have been different if I had gotten Vista 12 months ago. I’m running with 3 GB of Ram and it still seems like it takes forever to load when I boot up.
So, I don’t plan to upgrade my personal laptop from XP to Vista until I have to. I don’t’ see the benefit of spending the money for an upgrade. I have a feeling that on my personal machine, I’ll upgrade from XP to the OS after Vista unless Microsoft somehow forces people to upgrade to Vista. So, that’s my take… for what it’s worth.
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As a known Mac guy (who never sticks his pinky up!) all I will say is, I’d like to see the “Six months with Vista” post, as I usually still liked my PC after a week too. 😉 It was after six months that it was driving me crazy. If you can post in six months that you LOVE your PC, I’ll be impressed. I was absolutely impressed and still blown away by my first Mac well over a year after I got it, still no viruses, adware spyware, and blazing fast, not to mention all the cool stuff I kept discovering it could just DO without any problems… anyway. I’ll be praying for you, hope you continue to have a good experience. But hope someday you’ll discover just how much your ministry will rock with a Mac. 😉
(been catching up on a bunch of your posts, great stuff, just thought I’d do the oblicatory comment on this one!) 😉