The last "expensive" PC I bought was a Compaq in 2001 which came with
Windows Me. It cost $1000 more than usual because it included a Pioneer
DVD burner. Those were new at the time and only available on two
machines: one Apple Mac model and one Compaq model. But I needed that
for a contract project I was working on. But it cost less than the
Pentium Pro machine I bought in 1995. Funny thing was some Intel folks
visited the company and when I told them I had a Pentium Pro machine
they asked what I was doing with a server machine. I then educated them
to the fact that PC users were like hot car people which for some reason
they didn't know.
My off the shelf Windows 7 machine cost less than $500. My home built
Linux box around $300. And I can upgrade the Linux box without needing
to reinstall Linux. You can't do that with Windows. I went through one
move of a Windows XP Pro from one system to another which was quite a
convoluted feat in itself because the install on the prior machine
machine needed to be invalidated so I would license on an new system.
I need to buy the second season of "Halt and Catch Fire" today because
it is dealing even more with the realm I've been involved in since the
1980s. ;-)
On 06/03/2015 12:26 PM, ultrarishi wrote:
I love this thread.
I played a little with the Windows 10 beta, but one of the recent
builds broke the NIC setup on the netbook I was running it on. I have
this old Acer Netbook I use for procuring stuff via torrents away from
home in coffee shops. Nothing on it other than what I need to do
torrenting. It came with XP, but I put Windows 7 on it.
Anyway, I'm done with Windows 10 now until it is out of beta. I will
then wait for the RTM to get hammered on by the public for a few
months before installing it anywhere vital.
I now use a $59 Windows 8 WinBook Tablet to do torrenting on. Very
small profile. If it got lost, it would not be the end of the world.
My main machine at home is a Dell XPS 64 bit machine with 8 cores and
16 GB of memory running 8.1. I still like Windows 7 better. It was
just cleaner, but this unit had 8.1 so I'm good.
