Hmm. Guess how many computers I have in my household.
EIGHT.
Dad: 1 HP, 1 Fujitsu
Mom: 1 Acer
Jiahong: 1 IBM
Jiayu: 1 Apple Powerbook
Me: 1 Apple MacBook Pro
Desktops: 1 Gateway, 1 custom-built
Total: 6 laptops, 2 desktops XD
Anyway. Today I tried using my mom's Acer, which runs on Vista. And boy, does Vista suck. It lags like hell. 5 minutes to start up the monster. 5 minutes to log-in + load MSN and other whatnot. Sigh. Installing the Sony Ericsson Phone Suite and Media Manager was like watching a ball of yarn knit itself into a sock. Fruitless. Had to restart installation twice or thrice. Vista really sucks.
The best OS is none other than.... XP. Seriously. Everything, EVERYTHING works with XP. No compatibility issues. Installing stuff is a breeze. No lagging unless under stress (which, reasonably, any computer would, except Vista, which lags even though nothing is going on), easy to organise, easy to just do every damned thing. Plus if you ran XP on a PC like the one my brother built, everything supersized and beefed up, it's just like a dream. Simply beautiful. I haven't had a single session of TS2 crash, not even with all the custom content loaded. We run a few good decent games on it. No problems. Why on earth did dealers stop offering downgrading services for new computers?!
OSX Leopard is pretty good. It's just the learning curve and the compatibility issues. Sigh. Which can be a very big problem. MSN Messenger on Mac is bullshit; it's like using MSN Messenger 4 or 5. I end up downloading 2 other messengers just to use MSN properly, namely Adium and Mercury. Mercury, I have to admit, is pretty good since it includes some of the newer MSN features like Handwrite, Nudges, etc, but it's a new application and hence prone to bugs and glitches until later versions are released. Performance-wise, it runs like clockwork.
Sigh. Vista. What a monster.
And is it just me, but everything looks blurred in Vista?