Windows has been running pretty mental on my laptop at home for some time. This morning while downloading the latest and greatest podcasts through iTunes it went into spastic mode again. This is one party trick I haven’t seen before though. Parts of the Window dressing got confused and reverted back to the Windows 95 look and feel. Then it magically went back to XP. All the while consuming ridiculous numbers of CPU cycles.
No operating system should become so unreliable over time. Only iTunes is now stopping me from tossing Windoze out the door. Perhaps I should just buy a Mac. Windoze is normally pathetically slow and when it decides to have one of these fits it invariably wastes five or more minutes of my life.
> Perhaps I should just buy a Mac.
Go on! I dare you! :p
Dare accepted and now complete. Well sort of. Work bought me a luverly new MacBook Pro rather than me having to shell out the cash.
Now I’m using Kubuntu for the main desktop server at home and Mac OS X at work and home on the laptop. No more Windoze for me as the old laptop is now going to another family member.
The MacBook Pro is storing the iTunes library on the main desktop server so the data is stored centrally and not cluttering up the work laptop. Now I can download podcasts using iTunes and have them synced to the iPod without any Microsoft software being used in the process. Excellent.
And I can play all the music content off the central server using the XBox in the lounge, which is hooked up to the main stereo, using XBox Media Center (XBMC). Fantabulous.