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Ex_PC_Puke
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I'm in the process of starting my own consulting / service biz - handling both PCs and Macs ---------- after using Macs for almost a year (taking a break from PCs) ------ I'm just shocked at how fragile - clumsy - and just plain coo-coo XP is. How quickley you forget the past and come to expect and rely on simplicity and stability.
I bought a new high end Dell (E510 w/x86 hyper-threading) and a low end HP AMD Anthlon 64 for the biz - wow - I forgot how many annoying pop-ups occur from XP or all the crap software they bundle on new PCs. The Dell has even blue screened once. The E-510 is billed as an entertainment PC and I even ordered the Media Center version of XP - the system always has an annoying "POP" on the nice sound system I have attached when it powers up out of sleep state. A prime example of Dell saving 1 or 2 cents on a circuit design on the MB.
But mostly - shocked again - as I've been working on freinds PCs getting my PC / XP debug + service chops back up to speed. I've always kept my PC's updated and secure (firewalls - virus - spyware) - and I'm blown away at how fragile and suseptable these boxes are when just used by average Joe's and not kept secure.
But most importantly I've learned = if it ain't broke don't fix it. Fix the customers problem ---- don't try and change the way they do things (unless they are really fouling it up) because any deviation in how they run things may expose another fault that will pop up after you leave.
I bought a new high end Dell (E510 w/x86 hyper-threading) and a low end HP AMD Anthlon 64 for the biz - wow - I forgot how many annoying pop-ups occur from XP or all the crap software they bundle on new PCs. The Dell has even blue screened once. The E-510 is billed as an entertainment PC and I even ordered the Media Center version of XP - the system always has an annoying "POP" on the nice sound system I have attached when it powers up out of sleep state. A prime example of Dell saving 1 or 2 cents on a circuit design on the MB.
But mostly - shocked again - as I've been working on freinds PCs getting my PC / XP debug + service chops back up to speed. I've always kept my PC's updated and secure (firewalls - virus - spyware) - and I'm blown away at how fragile and suseptable these boxes are when just used by average Joe's and not kept secure.
But most importantly I've learned = if it ain't broke don't fix it. Fix the customers problem ---- don't try and change the way they do things (unless they are really fouling it up) because any deviation in how they run things may expose another fault that will pop up after you leave.