Filed under: Computing | Tags: ads, annoyances, apple, microsoft, pet peeves, start times, tco, total cost of ownership
Microsoft seems to have found ads that upset Apple’s cart, and apparently they asked them to take them down due to their dropping prices. Have a read…
I wonder if when calculating the total cost of ownership whether they take into account time wasted when booting and then waiting for the operating system to become usable? Why? When I go to work today and turn on my 1 year old Core2Duo Lenovo laptop it’s going to take it around 2-3 minutes to boot Vista, after I login it will then take around 5 minutes roughly before it becomes ‘usable’. Does everyone else face this with Vista on fast machines? At home (now) my laptop is a Core2Duo Apple MacBook with 4GB RAM (1GB more than the Lenovo), it takes maybe 1 minute (or less) to boot OS X, then about 10-15 seconds post-login before it’s ready. That’s a serious time saving for me. I wish I could convince them to move me to Apple at work and get VMWare Fusion 2 to run Windows for testing purposes. I dare to dream.
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what you have to consider also is what you have running on your startup in windows. More than likely, you are on a domain at your work and there are also startup scripts. My machine at home is 3x faster than the one at work, but they have similar hardware. It is all about the environment my man.
Comment by dclark1983 July 21, 2009 @ 3:51 amMy Windows machine at home certainly boots faster than the work one, what I wouldn’t give for the passwords to get in there and rip their shit out. My favourite pet peeve is their Managesoft app, complete piece of shit that often chokes the machine when you don’t want it to. I still think by comparison Windows is in need of an overhaul the likes of which Apple made going from Mac OS 9.2 -> Mac OS X (although 10.0 should be avoided!), they need to start from scratch with a new O/S and provide an emulation environment to support current Windows apps, only then can they truly move on with their O/S.
Comment by g04uld July 21, 2009 @ 7:16 am