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 - Microsoft Windows RIP-OFF RIP-OFF RIP-OFF RIP-OFF RIP-OFF RIP-OFF Microsoft Windows IS A JOKE WE ARE ALL OUT TO STEEL THEM BLAND WE PAY $200 FOR WHAT? TO BE BELITTLE WHEN WE HAVE TO REINSTALL IT I HAVE 5 COMP.AND I HAVE 5 BOXES OF Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition FULL VERSION with SP2 ONE FOR EACH PC OVER $1000) Rating:  - MacBook Intel ReadyI needed this for my new MacBook laptop that will give me Apple and Windows on the same machine. The laptop works fine, the pocketbook is thinner. You do what you have to do; Rating: - Buy a Mac, save your sanity!I used to ow a PC...I work with PCs all day at work. I've used every version of this lousy OS that's been released, up to and including, Windoze XP Now, I come home to my Mac (2nd one I have personally owned) and know what a REAL OS is supposed to be. Unless you have specific programs that don't have Mac compatible versions, you really have no reason to buy a PC. Seriously. Why anyone would, with all the porly built versions of Windoze, is beyond me. Anyway, if you REALLY must have Windoze...you can put it on a Mac now. You will have the ability to shut the damn thing off and move on over the wonderfully put together OS X when you don't want to deal with it anymore. Please people, get a Mac and teach Bill Gates to either make a good product or don't bother. All I have to say is that with a Mac, you can forget about CTRL ALT DELETE! Rating:  - $200 for a second-rate OS..? I bought a $200 copy of Windows XP to run on my new iMac with an Intel CPU -- my kids have been agitating for years for a PC to play PC games on. The day before the box from Amazon arrived I'd set up the new iMac and loaded the OS and got everything set up, so the comparison between the elegant and refined Mac OS and MS's XP was stark. Very stark. There's really no comparing the two systems -- the Mac is beautiful and functional, Windows reminds me of a line from a Tom Clancy novel, when the young sailor boards a Soviet submarine and is astounded at how primitive the technology is and exclaims "MEGA-KLUDGE TO THE MAX!" That's how I felt. Windows is a mess, a second-rate rip off of the Mac OS. Once I'd prepped my iMac to load XP I was shocked to see an ANSI screen as Windows loaded itself -- ANSI? Like 1980s computing ANSI?! Help! The iMac installation was BEAUTIFUL and elegant, absolutely seamless with NO SLOP or rough edges. Windows is pathetic. I'm irritated that it cost so much and gives me so little. I cannot believe that people would choose Windows over the Mac OS -- incomprehensible! I remember using Windows 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.11 back in the day. And not being impressed. Windows XP is STILL clunky and it STILL feels rickety. Is this really the best OS they can come up with? OK, my kids can now play PC games and I can run Quicken on the PC side of things if I want to -- other than that, I'd say save your money and buy a Mac. Windows is a cheap imitation of the Mac. And overpriced, I must say. A couple weeks later: if you enjoy puzzles and nonlinear thinking and interfaces, then this product may be exactly what you've always wished for. Rating: - Death to XP!I put 1 star,& i'm being exceeingly generous!! It should be minus 5 stars!! XP has just got to be worst thing around. Yes! probably worse than ME (as much as ME is VERY crappy already). Thr reasons for my hatred: 1) Bootup & shutdown is excruciatingly slow despite using a P4, 512 MB Ram & having minimal programs installed. 2)Program application startup is also excruciatingly slow. 3)It uses up sooooo much resources, that my applications all slow down, cos its writing stuff to the HD or vitual memory, or even hangs!!! I'm not even using heavy 3d applications here. just normal 2d Autocad or my 2d engineering programs. They worked very well under Win98 or 2000, but suffered when used with XP even tho the package said its XP compatible. 4) A perfectly good ADSL modem and a drawing plotter became unusable cos it did not satisfy windows logo certification. 5)Even with a newly installed XP computer i get so many "program not responding" errors & getting it to restart is next to impossible! 6)mouse pointer moves by itself while on XP despite being made for XP! Using another windows XP compatible mouse, the wheel cannot be used, neither do the std slide & drag function work. My working world simply collapsed when they decided to upgrade the computers to XP!! Never have i ever encountered so much inconvenince, computerwise. Give me win2000 or Win98 anyday! their response is thousands of miles better! & more importantly they do not hog resources. I will be purchasing a new laptop soon. 1st thing to do is to wipe out XP, patition my drives & put in Windows 2000!
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