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<blockquote data-quote="Badvostro" data-source="post: 985482" data-attributes="member: 141095"><p>Years of Windows influenced my decision, especially Vista...</p><p></p><p>I've been using Windows since Windows 95, and it's always been frustrating when it feels like it. My first computer was an HP Pavilion desktop, terrible terrible computer, always froze and crashed; multiple BSODs. Next I had a Dell Dimension with Windows 98, better but still not very good. The next desktop we got was an upgrade, a newer Dell Dimension with Windows 2000 Professional, we ended up using that for about eight years (400 MHz Pentium II, upgraded to 512MB of RAM, eventually put two 80GB HDDs in it); it became my computer when my mother got a new Dell desktop from one of my uncles and my sister got my dad's old Dell laptop. It needed to be 'rebuilt' every two months and finally died in March 2008. I got a Dell laptop identical to my sister's as a replacement (I think it was a Dell Inspiron from the early 2000's, it had a 4:3 screen ratio, 20GB HDD, it was ancient for 2008 anyways) running Windows XP. The screen wouldn't stay up and the battery wouldn't last more than two minutes, so I hooked it up like a desktop computer. That one died after about five months of use, so I got a loaner Dell desktop from my dad's office that was FUBAR, slowest thing I've ever used. My last Windows computer was a Vostro 1000 laptop, dual-core 1.9GHz AMD Athlon X2 processor, 80GB HDD, 15" screen, 2GB RAM, Vista Home Premium. It ran great for the first ten months and then started slowing down. It broke after a year, and for the past four months something on it has broken. I treat my stuff well and rarely moved it off my desk, so it shouldn't have broken, but it did. Also, Vista updates made the computer slower and slower, it performed TERRIBLY and crashed often. These updates came along every two days it seemed.</p><p></p><p>... so I finally got frustrated enough with that laptop that I went and bought my Macbook. About time, too... this thing is great!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Badvostro, post: 985482, member: 141095"] Years of Windows influenced my decision, especially Vista... I've been using Windows since Windows 95, and it's always been frustrating when it feels like it. My first computer was an HP Pavilion desktop, terrible terrible computer, always froze and crashed; multiple BSODs. Next I had a Dell Dimension with Windows 98, better but still not very good. The next desktop we got was an upgrade, a newer Dell Dimension with Windows 2000 Professional, we ended up using that for about eight years (400 MHz Pentium II, upgraded to 512MB of RAM, eventually put two 80GB HDDs in it); it became my computer when my mother got a new Dell desktop from one of my uncles and my sister got my dad's old Dell laptop. It needed to be 'rebuilt' every two months and finally died in March 2008. I got a Dell laptop identical to my sister's as a replacement (I think it was a Dell Inspiron from the early 2000's, it had a 4:3 screen ratio, 20GB HDD, it was ancient for 2008 anyways) running Windows XP. The screen wouldn't stay up and the battery wouldn't last more than two minutes, so I hooked it up like a desktop computer. That one died after about five months of use, so I got a loaner Dell desktop from my dad's office that was FUBAR, slowest thing I've ever used. My last Windows computer was a Vostro 1000 laptop, dual-core 1.9GHz AMD Athlon X2 processor, 80GB HDD, 15" screen, 2GB RAM, Vista Home Premium. It ran great for the first ten months and then started slowing down. It broke after a year, and for the past four months something on it has broken. I treat my stuff well and rarely moved it off my desk, so it shouldn't have broken, but it did. Also, Vista updates made the computer slower and slower, it performed TERRIBLY and crashed often. These updates came along every two days it seemed. ... so I finally got frustrated enough with that laptop that I went and bought my Macbook. About time, too... this thing is great! [/QUOTE]
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