When I got my MacBook Pro, I was just happy to have a new computer. I knew there would be benefits and a large part of why I went to Apple was because I was sick of Windows bull dookie.
Today, my sister was telling me about the PC she has but can’t use, because it won’t connect to the Internet. I wanted to help, since I know a thing or two about PCs. So we spent the next hour and a half trying various things to get the computer working with her broadband internets. No luck. I ended up telling her to just reinstall Windows XP.
The best part was when we were talking about how I knew all these things to try, because I have had to do this type of troubleshooting many times before on Windows-based PCs. That says a lot about a product, doesn’t it? Users have to be uber-geeks to be able to keep it working right. Or they need a lot of money to pay an uber-geek to fix it.
Not like any of this matters since my sister will be taking her work iMac home in a week or so. Problem solved. And I get the satisfaction of knowing that I don’t have to deal with Windows lunacy unless someone else is having problems. In which case, I can help them and tell them all about how much greener the grass is on the other side.
Its pretty strange to think that an operating system thats 9 years old would have problems. My Windows 7 has never had a problem connecting to a network thats been working properly. Even when I go use it somewhere other then home it finds and logs into any network that Ive previously logged into automatically.
Personally, Im done with Windows and Mac. Bring me some Chrome.
I’m realistic enough to know that companies don’t fix their 9-year-old products and keep them working right. The easiest ($) solution is to release something new.
This was not a wireless issue. This was a computer plugged directly into the modem with an ethernet cable. A direct connection like that should never go offline or stop working for no apparent reason, regardless of the age of a computer.
Unless you fried the motherboard.