Windows 7 Home First Boot Experience
A friend of mine is doing me a favor with some house stuff this week, and in return, I set up his new computers this weekend.
What. A. Pain. In. The. Arse.
Just as even Windows developers are waking up and smelling the coffee where the iPad’s concerned, it’s plain how badly that most PC manufacturers miss the boat. It took me two hours to boot a new Compaq laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium, to click through all of the ‘user experience aids’ that you have to accept or decline before you can even get to the desktop, and then to install updates, reboot several times, and install Firefox and an antivirus application. And this is a dual core machine with 2 GB of RAM, a 250 GB hard drive, a DVD-RW, and a 15″ screen. $329 new from Best Buy, for the record.
It’s a sign of how spoiled Apple people are that we bitch, moan, piss, whine, and complain to all comers that we have to plug the iPad into a USB port before we can use it.
