Burning Lemons

As anyone following my Twitter over the last few days will probably know (hey if you want all the lastest news on me you need to follow. What you don’t? Oh…) my 13 month old MacBook (just out of warranty natch…) has finally died a fairly spectacular death. A conversation with the nice people at the Glasgow Apple Store has confirmed that the logic board is to blame and fixing this will cost an amount of money not disimilar to the cost of the laptop. After spending the next few hours cursing the fact that I didn’t buy Applecare I got on to the subject of what to do next. The simple fact is that I cannot afford a new MacBook and aren’t particularly keen on buying an old one off ebay. Beacause of this I have little choice but to rejoin the Windows world I left in 2006 with the purchase of a Mac Mini (which cost £500 less than the macbook and is still going strong).

So having trawled through the world of computer websites I settled on an Acer machine running Windows Vista Home Premium with 4GB of RAM. As much as I have hated on Vista I have chosen to run with it for 4 reasons

1) Its been out for two years. Therefore they must be someway towards fixing it
2) I don’t really have any choice
3) I’ve had a look at Windows 7 and it doesn’t look that bad so the option to upgrade soonish is there
4) This laptop is really only a stopgap for the next 18 or so months

So over the next few weeks I’ll be doing a comparison of my Mac OS X experience to what I find with Vista. I hope you’ll stay posted