04-14-2007, 08:32 PM
I finally went to Best Buy to look at Vista today, and the interface sure looks ugly to me. It's a rip-off of OSX, but a very bad one. Visual appeal has always been important to me (I believe it is an essential element of good interface design) and I have never been able to understand why so many people aren't even aware of it.
To make matters worse, about half of the PCs were hooked up to wide screen monitors, but no one had bothered to set the display resolution accordingly. As a result, everything on the desktop was stretched out horizontally: circles looked like ovals and squares looked like rectangles. How can their salespeople be qualified to advise people about computers?
What is really depressing is that I am going to have to purchase (not at BB) a PC very soon because of my wife's business needs.
To make matters worse, about half of the PCs were hooked up to wide screen monitors, but no one had bothered to set the display resolution accordingly. As a result, everything on the desktop was stretched out horizontally: circles looked like ovals and squares looked like rectangles. How can their salespeople be qualified to advise people about computers?
What is really depressing is that I am going to have to purchase (not at BB) a PC very soon because of my wife's business needs.