>I must say that the past couple of days have made me really glad to be a
>Macintosh user. I've spent them trying to help a friend wrestle Windows
>Millenium Edition onto his laptop computer, with zero success. It's a
>fairly new laptop, only 6 months old, and formerly ran Windows 98. However,
>Windows ME gives it indigestion for some reason. The install went smoothly
>until the OS started looking for Plug & Play devices. Then it locked up.
>Now, the laptop won't even boot fully - just starts up and goes back to the
>"looking for PnP devices" screen and freezes - hard.
>
>In all the years I've been using Macs, I've never seen an operating system
>lock up during installation and render a computer unusable. Not once. As
>cranky as OS 9 was when I first started running it on my desktop G4, it
>never did anything like this.
>
Once a friend of mine who for months tried to make a modem to run with his PC and had
fiddled with all imaginable system files with no success, happened to witness my
installing a larger hard drive onto my since parted-with PowerMac 7100. I opened the
box, old drive out, new drive in, old drive into external box, attached to SCSI port,
pressed the button ... my friend watched with face pale as snow as the computer
started up with a happy chime, displayed Mr Mac ... a minute or so later I was
inserting the OS installer into the CD tray.
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