...and I don't mean just you, Jeremy. Every pundit and wonabee critic on this and every other forum that sits at the epicenter of the OS "wars" is nothing short of, well, like I said, unbelievable..and downright hilarious at that. What I find most amusing, is how each and every one of you (the zealots, that is, and you know who you are) truly do believe that your opinion (and that's really all it is, afterall) is quite literally the gospel and beyond any and all argument.
Please! Let's everyone get just an itsy-bitsy tiny little reality check here, shall we.
PSYCH 101- Lesson of the day: You argue and rant for argument's sake. Nothing more, nothing less. You desperately want everyone to read your words, sit back, ponder, and then think "Wow! This guy really knows his sh..tuff. Why, he's simply amazing!" C'mon. Just once, try to post something that's even a little bit constructive. Here's a quicky example:
From one of their closets, I pulled out one of my kids' old home-built boxes with a Pentium 4 (2.66Ghz circa early 2006), Intel 915 chipset and one gig of RAM. Attached a (new) USB wireless N adapter, a wireless keyboard and mouse, and fired her up with the Win7 RC dvd in the drive. It was going to be a fun experiment for the evening... Twenty minutes later, much to my astonished eyes, Win7 was up and running. With no real assistance from me, save a mouse click or two, it first found (from the dvd) a driver for the USB network adapter (which, btw, no other OS has been able to do so far), found my home network, helped me login, then connected itself to the Windows update site, downloaded and installed two updated drivers for the nearly 4-year old chipset and graphics adapter, and I was done. No muss, no fuss, no tweaking, no screaming, no fooling. It all just worked. Simple. One more cool thing... even on this pathetic pile of hardware, Aero mode is running and quite functional.
You know what, even sitting next to my new iMac, I like it. And, even though it took me about 15 minutes longer to get the Mac up and running, you know what, I still like the Mac, too. I'll even send you pictures of the two if you want.
So, there you have it. I love computers, what they do and how they do it. I don't give a rat's whisker which one is more intellectually titillating. I just need the darned things to work. Which, I suspect, is what most people want here.
If you simply want to argue, go take a philosophy class at your local high school. You'll get more people to listen and think that you know more than you really do. That goes for all you Z-men/women, too. Go to church if you just have to be a zealot about something. Computers just aren't worth the emotionally trouble, don't you think?
Lesson over. End of class. Try to remember some of what you learned in kindergarten.
Cheers!
For the benefit of the early adopters and those who patiently wait, I’ve been gathering information on the right and wrong ways to set up Windows 7. For the past week or so I’ve been installing and upgrading the RC code on a wide variety of systems—notebooks and desktops, with and without touch and tablet capabilities, with and without TV tuners and Blu-ray drives, as clean installs and upgrades, in x86 and x64 flavors, documenting the process.
