http://www.drozmonkey.com The Adventures of JR, Jenny, Olivia, Molly, Violet, and Red. Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:40:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.drozmonkey.com/technology/optimizing-windows-xp/#comment-64 Trouble with Your New PC? at Andrews Family Sun, 04 Jun 2006 04:13:15 +0000 http://www.drozmonkey.com/?page_id=12#comment-64 [...] Another interesting twist was that there were some references to Macs and a trackback to a Mac blog which had linked to the article and was discussing it. Now I don’t have anything against Macs in principle, but I do feel that the average home user, like most of my relatives who I help, are better off with a Windows XP PC. For example, my sister ended up getting the Emachines PC including monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers for $150 as an a day after Thanksgiving sale special. After cleaning it up, it had quite speedy performance and is going to do anything they will want to do and more. And there is plenty of free software for Windows for anything from anti-virus to an office suite. If you could get a Mac for anything near that price let me know and I’d consider it. [...] [...] Another interesting twist was that there were some references to Macs and a trackback to a Mac blog which had linked to the article and was discussing it. Now I don’t have anything against Macs in principle, but I do feel that the average home user, like most of my relatives who I help, are better off with a Windows XP PC. For example, my sister ended up getting the Emachines PC including monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers for $150 as an a day after Thanksgiving sale special. After cleaning it up, it had quite speedy performance and is going to do anything they will want to do and more. And there is plenty of free software for Windows for anything from anti-virus to an office suite. If you could get a Mac for anything near that price let me know and I’d consider it. [...]

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