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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.
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[quote Ammo]How can their salespeople be qualified to advise people about computers?
Because they think they are really smart and talented in all things related to computers. It is a disparity of awareness.
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Suggestion: Buy your wife a Mac.
Download Boot Camp, install Windows on it. Let her run whatever she wants.
When it gets a virus or "slows down" due to spyware (guess what -- this could take all of a DAY!), offer to see if there's some alternative to her needs in the Mac world.
If the reason she "needs" a PC is to run Office, smack her (and yourself) and buy Mac Office.
If the reason she "needs" a PC is because she needs ActiveX on IE7 to do MLS listings, buy Crossover (it works fine).
Anything else? Buy Parallels, take the Win environment offline, let her do her one or two apps, and use the Mac for everything else.
She WILL thank you later.
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Best Buy employees too busy recording video of their customers in the shower?
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[quote Ammo]I am going to have to purchase (not at BB) a PC very soon because of my wife's business needs.
No problem: As chas_m said, buy her a Mac PC.
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Vista is ugly?
Are you calling Vista a "nappy headed ho"?
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[quote pRON aHOLIC]Best Buy employees too busy recording video of their customers in the shower?
LOL! And they need a squad of geeks to foul it.
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[quote Article Accelerator][quote Ammo]I am going to have to purchase (not at BB) a PC very soon because of my wife's business needs.
No problem: As chas_m said, buy her a Mac PC.
Because I can buy an inexpensive ($400) PC a lot cheaper than an Intel Mac. The reason we need Windows at all is that she needs to access a database thru the web and it will only display and work properly on a PC.
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We are owning a PC because of MS Access.
