Although the new iMac looks great, we are too poor to own such a beautiful machine. So we did like anybody else would do, buy a pc and use the evil MS OS.

I thought I’d never go back, but the girlfriend’s pc was as good as dead and a replacement was needed quickly. Seeing as we’d have no other choice than to buy a new pc and no mac, and the fact that Half-Life 2 is going to go gold sometime soon, we built one to last a while.

The new baby is a 3Ghz Pentium with an ATI 9800 Pro videocard (which is not the latest, but who pays 500 euros for a videocard? .. oh that’s right, you Denis ;)). It plays Doom 3 fine and should run any other game smooth aswell. I guess Office, Photoshop etc will run without a prob ;), just a pitty all these games and tools need the Windows OS to work.

Which reminds me of that stupid Matrix spoof by Microsoft, on how easy it is to work with Windows and its easy driver system (compared to Linux). Nothing if further from the truth. Installing Windows takes ages (as always), needing 100 updates, seperate driver installs (unless you’re happy with the crappy default Microsoft ones) and some more work to look good (whoever designed the default XP look should be shot). Plug & Play is a hoax.

An Apple however, takes just a couple of button presses to get installed AND works/looks great default! I know that’s because a Mac is assembled by Apple and isn’t filled with random hardware like a pc, but still, this gives Apple a great advantage. Easy install, ease of use, etc.

So yes, we bought a pc, we chose the cheap solution and now we’re stuck with Windows XP. But we try to look at the bright side, because we might be enjoying Half-Life 2 after all :D (and there’s no need to get that ugly Xbox anymore!;))