Operating Systems

So, I realize we haven't posted in a little while. I think we both were worn out from all the political discussion we had going on so we took a bit of a break from posting. Anyway, on to my random thoughts for the day. Sabrina's mom is having some trouble with her computer. She's taking it in tomorrow to get looked at (I couldn't troubleshoot it over the phone). If it's broken down, she wondered what type of computer she should get. My initial reaction was "an iMac", and here's why:

1. I never used to be an apple fan. Well, I do admit really liking our family's old Apple IIc, but that was the last one we ever owned. I always thought Mac enthusiasts were a bit over the top. However, since we got ours I can honestly say that you don't have to be a nut to own a Mac.

2. Stability. I love the fact that this evening as I was encoding a movie to burn to a DVD, recording a TV show, re-encoding some home movies, with Photoshop up to do some touch ups to some pictures, I was able to pull up a web browser and not have noticable lag. That sort of thing would have crippled Windows. It's amazing.

3. Form factor. Can you tell me that it's not cool to have a huge LCD monitor be your whole computer?

4. It runs Windows, which I do care about still. It actually runs Windows quite well. My only complaint is that I can't run my computer game Starcraft in Windows because the resolution on my monitor only goes down to 800x600.