Windows Woahs

Wow, I feel so loved... four comments in one day! Good golly! And I feel more and more compelled to keep posting. I figure I should do it alot now, who knows how long my love for blogging will last-- hopefully longer than my love for Magic the Gathering, Chumbawumba, and Monty Python.

So tonight I drive home, after about an hour of singing Weezer and Violent Femmes at the top of my lungs, and I find that my parents got their new computer. We went to CompUSA last week and ordered it and they went and picked it up this afternoon.

I told them to get a Mac. I tried to convince them that it was the best decision they would ever make... they didnt agree. Our computers in the past (back in the day when my dad owned a computer store, and bought us an Atari) have always caused strife in our family. Nothing else has caused me, personally, more pain and anguish than Windows 95 and our Pentium II 350mhz. I would scream, pull my hair, and gnash my teeth every time it froze or crashed. Our family has gotten in day-long arguments just because my brother would buy a computer game that met the system requirements but still didn't work. But that all changed back in April when I purchased my Powermac G4 for college.

I am a Mac user through and through now, and I would never recommend a PC to anyone ever again (unless of course we were trying torture them to get information, in which case I would recommend a Pentium 3 running Windows ME with only 64MB of RAM). So I told my parents, I said "Get a Mac. Get an iMac or a G5... you will never look back!"

But everyone had their reasons:

Danny (my brother) said, "But I have to play multiplayer games with my friends, and they won't work with the Mac!"
Dad said, "I just need to check my e-mail... I don't care what we get as long as it's cheap."
Mom said, "I don't really care... I don't use the computer anyways."

Well they didn't listen, and they got a custom build Windows XP machine with an AMD 2600. So when I arrived home today, from the drive filled with singing as I mentioned earlier, I set it up for them. But, as I am not at all surprised, the keyboard and mouse do not work. I won't get into the details, but it seems to be something between the motherboard and the operating system. Thanks Bill Gates for your wonderful "plug n' play" machinery. That was sarcasm.

So, I now sit at my computer desk, with my ancient Toshiba Tecra laptop, telling my geeky story to the few of you who check this out. Tomorrow I shall call CompUSA and get this straightened out (because I am the only one in my family that knows what a PS/2 port is).

I should really start talking about stuff other than computers... someone might think I'm a nerd (and I am SO not!)

Posted by MikeRubino at November 21, 2003 12:00 AM