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Now this is just sad.....

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I haven't posted in a while, but I find this both funny and sad all at the same time.  The whole Windows / Mac debate that follows in the comments is rather interesting as well.  I must say, as a Mac user my whole life, I would generally side with the Mac on almost everything.  That is, until Monday.  On Monday I bought my first PC ever.  No wait... correction... I put together my first PC ever.  I was expecting something miserable to happen and after 2 1/2 hours, I was surprised to have a smokin' machine that worked perfectly on the very first start up (and has worked perfectly so far since (must find wood,  must knock)). 

Of course it took me many, many hours to download all of the security updates and service packs and to install all of the various driver updates.  (Why on earth would ASUS force you to update your Chipset drivers via floppy?  Does anyone actually have a floppy drive anymore?)  I won't say that I'm a full-fledged convert, I still have plenty of issues with XP that I probably shouldn't discuss too much here.  But I was pleasantly surprised.

Of course, my Mac at home has been on for about five years now, I've kept it up to date, and the only problem I've had with it at all involves an old version of Norton not working on Tiger and Windows Media Player not working at all.  Now if we can just get a Mac version of Flight Simulator.....

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  • Anonymous
    February 22, 2006
    I wonder why you bought a pc... to fsx...???

    brds
  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2006
    Hehe, as a mac user too (from my first Mac SE, but today tiger is so cool to use even on my old BW@G4 600Mhz !), i was asking from the begining why FSX and not FS10, it sounds in a too Mac OS X way !!!

    So i was right, there'll be too a mac version ? !

    (don't worry microsoft guys, i'll buy too Vista for my A64 x2 ! )
  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2006
    "Why on earth would ASUS force you to update your Chipset drivers via floppy?  Does anyone actually have a floppy drive anymore?"

    If you mean why you need to load some of the SATA  raid drivers from floppy when first installing windows, you might want to ask Microsoft that :-), afaik Windows will only support loading 3rd party drivers from a floppy at that point!

    I keep a fdd lying around especially for that reason!
  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2006
    No Mac version of Flight Sim yet.  But the Xbox 360 is a motorola chipset, so maybe if we ever get around to doing that, it would be an easy port.  ;)
  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2006
    You could always fly X-Plane...  :)

    Take care,
  • Anonymous
    March 02, 2006
    If you have been around computers since the 80's, like me, you will always find a need for FDD's. I built 100's, maybe 1000's of systems over the last 20 years, never without a FDD.

    Basically, it's a old habit that's tried and true, quick and dirty. USB keycards would be a good replacement, but I still have some games that are still on FDD.
  • Anonymous
    March 25, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2006
    But why bother with the Motorolla chipset when Macs are already running x86!?! :P