“Hi, I’m a Mac.” “And I’m an annoying bloated piece of crap.”
July 9th, 2007 by screenwriterguy
Transformers isn’t the only recent release that is annoyingly inadequate and yet still has millions of customers.
I had a side job that issued laptops, until they recently ran out of work and asked us to return them. Since, I have been woefully unproductive during my hours in coffee shops, or while waiting for tutees to finish assignments.
So this afternoon I bought myself a Presario notebook at Office Depot. Man, computers are getting cheap. This one was $399 after rebate, and it has 512 MB of RAM, 80 Gig hard drive, 1.6 GHz processor: more than enough to run my copy of Final Draft.
The only downside (besides the hours spent removing pre-installed crap software) is that it comes installed with Windows Vista. You know, every time Microsoft releases something, millions of geeks complain about how lame it is. Usually I take it with a grain of salt. However, this time around, it really does seem to be an annoying product, and there doesn’t seem to be any real reason for the annoyance. It’s as if Microsoft has run out improvements, and is instead just repackaging its products, a little shinier each time. I still use Office 2000, because as nearly as I can tell, nothing of use has been added since.
Anyway, time to get back to trying to figure out how to make Vista do what I want it to. At least it was affordable.
Gold star to the first person who can figure out why I’m including the following picture in this post:
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Jul 10th 2007 at 9:07 am
Far as I can tell, Vista is a complete botch job. It takes 12 minutes to start up the machine, and another 9 to shut it down. Programs take forever to load. It’s just garbage. Everyone in the office here switched to Windows Classic view just to make the damn PCs run faster. Truly sad. Thankfully, I still have XP on my work laptop.
And a Mac at home
Jul 10th 2007 at 8:38 pm
OK, so I recognize that it’s Sir Didymus from LABYRINTH… not sure what that has to do with Vista, no.
Jul 12th 2007 at 11:17 am
I’ll take a stab.
Simple answer - He’s annoying, absurd, and completely useless although he thinks he is super useful?
Jul 19th 2007 at 1:21 am
The answer:
Yes, it’s Sir Didymus, who had sworn an oath to protect a bridge. He cannot let anyone pass unless they have his permission. Sarah realizes that she should just ask his permission. Didymus, as if he’d never thought of someone asking, grants it.
Windows Vista seems to do the same thing. Every once in a while a window pops up saying you need permission to perform the operation you just requested. You click a button that essentially says, fine, give me permission. And then it does the task you asked it to do.
LAME.