I'm sitting at home trying to do some work and finally when I finish, I just want to shut down my Windows XP PC and close up for the night. Sounds simple enough right? Wrong!!! I have a brand spankin new Windows XP SP2 Compaq 2510p laptop with 2 gigs of Ram - plenty of horsepower to handle anything I can dish out, right? Wrong again! It seems that my timesheets and simple web applications were too much too handle for the poor thing and when it came time to close it's eyes for the night and go to sleep, it wasn't having any of it!
I have been using Windows and Macintosh since the early 90's and for the life of me, I still can't figure out why Windows remains so successful. I just don't understand why people put up with it. If this were any other appliance in your home, you'd be back to the manufacturer in a heartbeat wanting your money back in an instant. I understand that computers are much more complicated, but TV's, DVR's and Cell phones and the myriad of other technology we deal with is becoming just as complicated without the same perils. Cars are pretty complicated and if you went to turn it off and it decided not to, you wouldn't stand for it!
Sigh...
OK, I am going to go calm down now... this is quickly becoming my "why Mac is better than Windows blog". Not my initial intention.
