Witchcraft or is it that Steve Jobs knows what he’s doing?

So I bought a MacBook Pro and all is well. I have yet to learn all of its ins and outs but it starts quickly, comes out of hibernation quickly, opens software quickly. Macs update software in a tidy and orderly manner …

Following on from my Windows mayhem of the other day, I bought, downloaded and installed OS Lion for the Mac last night and it worked. The file is a monstrous 3.5 Gb but i let it download and once it had, it took 40 minutes or so to install and reboot … ready for action.

The promised features are installed and they work. Instantly available la la la.

Some of the features, such as moving between pages and files and software by sliding … truly beautiful!

We used to have the blue screen of death with Windows. Windows XP seemed to get rid of it. I am getting more and more and more blue wheels of death now with Vista and Windows 7. Blue wheel and Not Responding messages. Tired of them.

So far Jobs 10 v Gates 0

DW

You think I’d Learn!

Following on from my previous post, I volunteered for the self inflicted wound of accepting an invitation to install Internet Explorer 9. Why did I think that would be any good?

I started using it and found that I was chopped off from Facebook every two or three minutes. I thought, hmm, poor connection.

After a gap of a couple of hours, I logged on again to Facebook and was cast out yet again so I put two and two together and closed IE9 probably never to open it again. I can’t remember the details but I had a similar experience when IE8 was now and I rarely used that too.

We now know that there’s only one way that Bill Gates III got to be so wealthy don’t we?

DW

Gatesed AGAIN!

My limp wristed HP laptop has been in storage since April but had to be dragged into service this week. I have spent the week in Saudi Arabia, back on the road; and needed to use and demonstrate Excel 2007 … installed on the HP laptop.

Here’s the truth: when one leaves a laptop in storage for four months, there are many, many, many updates to download once the thing is revived. This week I have been caught out to the nth degree. Monday was bad but today was the worst.

On Monday I downloaded and installed some Windows nonsense and the thing ran slower than a very slow thing … spreadsheets had their buttons all grey … I overcame all of that. Then Wednesday, today: i knew last night that I had downloaded and started to install some more Windows nonsense last night. This morning, I started the computer at 5:45 am … yes FIVE 45 am: I had things to do. An hour and a half later, having not been able to do any work, I thought my worries were over. Remember, I had things to do … I hadn’t been able to do them.

Because I wasn’t able to do my work, I was caught short initially but being cool and suave I overcame all obstacles.

The moral of this story: buy a Mac!

DW