Comments on: Egg anyone? http://www.saunderslog.com/2007/09/09/3502/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3502 An outcome-driven leader, proven technology product developer, and marketer with over 20 years of hands-on experience including start-up, small and large business environments, and the board room. This is my blog. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:15:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben Lucier http://www.saunderslog.com/2007/09/09/3502/#comment-5436 Ben Lucier Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:29:03 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2007/09/09/3502/#comment-5436 Well what can you do Alec... we've all been there before. The important part is that you had the integrity to own up to your mistake. And as long as we're on the topic of Vista... I installed Vista to my old Gateway laptop earlier in the year and immediately fell in love with it. It was soooo pretty. People were complaining about UAC (user account control), but I didn't understand what all the fuss was about. But over the course of a few months, something happened that I couldn't quite put my finger on - I fell out of love with Vista. Like a lusting, loving relationship that fizzles into just a friendship... that's how it felt for me. There were so many options with Vista and so many different ways of doing the same thing. Windows didn't pop onto my screen fast enough when I clicked on them. There was no easy way to relocate my entire home directory to an alternate partition. I didn't have as much memory as I used to. Vista isn't a pig - it's a cow. Mooooo. Unrelated to Vista, my laptop bit the dust. I had to buy a new PC. Instead of a PC though, I settled on a very nice MacBook with 2GB of RAM. Since my company is PC based, I needed Window support which I use Parallels for. You haven't lived until you run a Mac, with Windows Vista running in Parallels' Coherence mode. Windows Vista applications running in a Window INSIDE OSX. It's amazing. And I get the best of both worlds. That's why Apple is selling 1 Mac for every 6 PCs... and it's going to snowball. It won't be THAT bad for Microsoft though.. they'll still sell their OS. But I don't imagine it makes HP, Sony and Dell very happy as the laptop/PC makers. Ah well... somebody's gotta service the low end. Well what can you do Alec… we've all been there before. The important part is that you had the integrity to own up to your mistake.

And as long as we're on the topic of Vista…

I installed Vista to my old Gateway laptop earlier in the year and immediately fell in love with it. It was soooo pretty. People were complaining about UAC (user account control), but I didn't understand what all the fuss was about.

But over the course of a few months, something happened that I couldn't quite put my finger on – I fell out of love with Vista. Like a lusting, loving relationship that fizzles into just a friendship… that's how it felt for me.

There were so many options with Vista and so many different ways of doing the same thing. Windows didn't pop onto my screen fast enough when I clicked on them. There was no easy way to relocate my entire home directory to an alternate partition. I didn't have as much memory as I used to. Vista isn't a pig – it's a cow. Mooooo.

Unrelated to Vista, my laptop bit the dust. I had to buy a new PC. Instead of a PC though, I settled on a very nice MacBook with 2GB of RAM. Since my company is PC based, I needed Window support which I use Parallels for. You haven't lived until you run a Mac, with Windows Vista running in Parallels' Coherence mode. Windows Vista applications running in a Window INSIDE OSX. It's amazing. And I get the best of both worlds.

That's why Apple is selling 1 Mac for every 6 PCs… and it's going to snowball.

It won't be THAT bad for Microsoft though.. they'll still sell their OS. But I don't imagine it makes HP, Sony and Dell very happy as the laptop/PC makers. Ah well… somebody's gotta service the low end.

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