Mac

Jan 20, 2007 18:21

Okay Mac commericals in general have pissed me off but never before like the one I saw the other day. You Macies will know it on your precious little Mac website as "surgery", to those of us who don't need a constant ego boost every day, you've probably seen it on television where the "PC" is waiting to be operated on and the mac asks "Isn't upgrading straight forward?", the PC responds with "No you have to update drives" which is actually a shortening of what he said. my point is, This is a terrible lie! I, Adriann, Chris, and even Dave have just switched to Vista, its a god damn wonderful operating system, and you know what, I had ONE problem with the install, my sound drivers, which use a software program to operate, had to be updated for vista. But you know what happened?
Windows gave me a "Warning, Realtek audio drivers are not functioning properly, how would you like to fix this problem? 1) I'll do it myself. 2) Search online for a solution"
I chose search online and Windows found the Realtek website, got the drivers and installed them! Holy cow it did something good for me for a change, so you know what... I technically had to install NO drivers. Things just worked for a change.
This has been the story of our experience with Vista so far, nothing I hate, tons of things I had been wanting them to make more useful such as the "search online for drivers" option that you had to fight to get working on previous windows, and DirectX 10! now in my mind equivilant to OpenGL, clean crips and uncluttered with crap. Of course I also had to get the Radeon catalyst control pannel for my video card, but that just allows you to specifically control how the card works instead of just letting applications decide.

On another note I'm looking to get a new video card to accompany my new crossfire board, dont' have that on mac yet.
Yes I'm a bit bitter that all the companies I once loved now suck and all the companies I onced hated with avengence are becoming the "good guys". Mac-Nintendo-Sony = Loved; Microsoft = die with burning fire of hell and brimstone... now other way around.

But I'm also sure in time things will return to normal.
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