Chris,
I appreciate you writing that about the Australian dollar. I didn't know:
http://www.theage.com.au/business/aussie-dollar-hits-24year-high-20080519-2fr2.html
bobbi
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Chris: What version of Windows 7 do you have? My netbook runs on basic, my
> desktop on home premium. I don't do graphics on the former, but I use it
> for everything else. I photoshop and design books on the latter. And I use
> firefox on both. So far I've been delighted--not a single crash.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Jan 4, 2012 7:38 AM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: windows 7
> >
> >OK... thanks to the high aust dollar I now have two toshiba netbooks for
> >far, far, far less then half the price of a macbook pro!
> >
> >However, I must say that Windows 7 is a load of (expletive deletive) crap.
> >
> >Like all previous versions of the MS operating system it still has
> >crashing problems with high memory usage and I get a blue wriggling line
> >of death. Do Not Use this version of MS Windows for high memory graphics
> >usage such as Firefox, audio editing or graphics!!!! Do Not believe that
> >this is a stable OS! This is PR BullShit (and I should know, I have
> >degrees in this arena.)
> >
> >Bill Gates could not write a BASIC DATA BASE IN C to save his life! This
> >OS is so slow I would die of old age before I could edit a graphic file
> >in 8 bit. (And forget Photoshop, I tried the trial version... that also
> >is expletive...)
> >
> >However, on my other Toshiba netbook, a 550D multimedia with duel core
> >AMD CPU, I simply erased and re-formatted the entire hard-drive and
> >installed Linux Ubuntu 11.10. Oh, what a difference!!!! Sorry, I find it
> >hard to understand why so many have been conned into using MicroSoft
> >crap for so long????
>
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