In the interest of fairness, after my little Apple bashing midweek, I’ve decided to dedicate this auspicious entry to Bill and that wonderful windows operating system he stole from IBM. As you can see from the image above, my AMD-k6 450Mhz PC has seen better days.
Why the fuck is it in bits? I hear your ask…
Well my friends, it’s in bits because it died rather abruptly one afternoon suffering a massive cardiac arrest as the harddrive died and took the rest of the machine with it. Attempts to resuscitate it were futile as 2 replacement heart drives were implanted to no avail. Surgery went awry as my 6 year old flatlined never to see the light of day again. So what happened? Who the fuck knows, all I know is the machine was dying a slow painful death. It all began when I allowed the windows “auto-updater” (WAU) the right to download updates from MS for the Win2k Operating System. I noticed that the WAU was always updating.
Like everytime I was online (I had dialup back then), it was always sitting in the taskbar with a % completion progress bar. I started noticing the OS working very slowly in the weeks that the WAU had been granted access. Call it a conspiracy theory but I think auto the updates are designed to get you to make a real update (i.e. to go and buy windows XP) by rendering your current Operating system obsolete & unusable. After one particular update my Internet Explorer failed to work, as did Windows Explorer and My Computer. Making file handling and surfing an absolute bitch. No, it wasn’t a virus, Bill’s updates fucked my machine, I don’t get viruses (unless I intentionally load them onto a machine).
About 8 months later the HD failed to boot, and was making a whistling noise. If you’ve ever heard it before (and I have when my 486 passed away) you know the boot sector of your hardrive has had the dick. John Holmes size. Still 6 years is a good life for any computer, and mine served me well.
However it was this incident that prompted me to give Apple a go. I had witnessed a Dual 2 Gig G5 with 23″ cinematic display set up in full swing running Final Cut Pro and, being the 24/7 user I am I felt that a laptop was more my thing. After hearing Dave Dakcream about his 17″ Powerbook G4 I knew I had to have one… So far I am liking it enough to stick with Apple for a while to come. However as you can see from my previous post, I still have a few gripes to come to terms with. Hopefullly that’ll all be rectified in the near future 