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OS X vs Windows

These days everyone has opinions on both Mac and PC’s. I have been using the Mac for over a year now and wanted to share my opinions on what I like best. I am going to start off with a bit about my background with computers.

In 1994 I was 14 and I owned a Honda 80cc 4-wheeler that my father had bought me when I was 5 years old. I was still able to ride it however it was just not fast enough for me. This was also the time when I wanted my own computer but we were unable to afford one. I ended up selling the 4-wheeler for $750 and buying my first computer with it. It was a Tandy 1000 RL which if you are not aware had no hard drive for saving data. You had to boot the OS from disks and then load games from the disks. I am not sure how the entire internals of this system worked however I would guess that the games were loaded into ram or onto a hard disk for temporary use. I never did open the system to see the inside. A few years later my parents bought me an IBM Aptiva that ran Windows 95. I used this for a while and loved the bonus items that came with it such as Home Director where you could set it to turn your lights on and off at certain times. Anyway in 1997 I started working at a community center where computers were readily available and then Windows 98 hit the market. I continued to use the various versions of Windows up until 1996. Over the 12 years of using Windows I had become fed-up with the Blue Screen of Death. There were other irritations that I ran into while using Windows as well, most notably were driver issues. The latest version of Windows called Vista is just a joke. We have a laptop with it installed and it is slow as slow can be. I also hate how it second questions your every move. Are you sure you want to do that? Are you REALLY sure you want to do that? Just do it already, I confirmed once. Most of the new features in Windows Vista were taken from OS X anyhow.. Just compare them ;)

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