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Hack&Lube · 03-23-2009, 09:36 AM

Maybe you are just using it wrong or not taking proper care of what you are running? That is not your fault, Vista and most Microsoft products are badly designed for the casual user which makes the features clumsy, hidden, and unintuitive for some.

There should be no way you need to use the rescue disk that many times. I have never ever had to use a rescue disk or restore operation from the windows disk except for one time a powersurge corrupted my boot.ini

It's all about how your use your OS, what you are installing, making sure you don't have too much junk running, etc. But yes, a Mac would be less prone to users messing it up like that. I'm no fan of Macs though. What do you mean incompatibility? Software incompatibility is still there. You still can't run Windows software on a Mac unless you use bootcamp which guides you through some repartitioning and some slightly complicated "expert" processes if you are willing to do it for him or he wants to learn.

As for the guy who says XP is suffering, XP is bliss and 10 times more easy to use and stable than Vista (of course it took a few years to get there). To be honest, for older people, they don't like change and putting a new non-windows OS on him might be harder than just getting a computer with XP over Vista. But like the other guy said, you could always buy a mac and if he doesn't like it, install XP onto it since it's all x86 compatible now.

03-23-2009, 09:36 AM	#11
Hack&Lube Atomic Nerd Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Calgary Exp:	Maybe you are just using it wrong or not taking proper care of what you are running? That is not your fault, Vista and most Microsoft products are badly designed for the casual user which makes the features clumsy, hidden, and unintuitive for some. There should be no way you need to use the rescue disk that many times. I have never ever had to use a rescue disk or restore operation from the windows disk except for one time a powersurge corrupted my boot.ini It's all about how your use your OS, what you are installing, making sure you don't have too much junk running, etc. But yes, a Mac would be less prone to users messing it up like that. I'm no fan of Macs though. What do you mean incompatibility? Software incompatibility is still there. You still can't run Windows software on a Mac unless you use bootcamp which guides you through some repartitioning and some slightly complicated "expert" processes if you are willing to do it for him or he wants to learn. As for the guy who says XP is suffering, XP is bliss and 10 times more easy to use and stable than Vista (of course it took a few years to get there). To be honest, for older people, they don't like change and putting a new non-windows OS on him might be harder than just getting a computer with XP over Vista. But like the other guy said, you could always buy a mac and if he doesn't like it, install XP onto it since it's all x86 compatible now. Last edited by Hack&Lube; 03-24-2009 at 12:58 AM.