Apple: It just works...kind of.

So my wife decided she wanted an iMac, naturally I wanted one too because its a computer. I buy one and it sits on my desk because at the time I had no desktop. The first thing I did was try to install windows and let me tell you, it was more of a pain than I thought it would be. First I had to try and find boot camp, I downloaded it but then I lost it. A few days later I went to download it again and apple's website didn't have bootcamp 1.3 they had upgraded to 1.4 and it was supposed to come with leopard. I didn't have leopard...a ploy to make me upgrade? Well it didn't work, I found bootcamp somewhere else. Next I needed the hard drive partitioned...well it had been partitioned in half already so I tried to skip that step. It didn't work and I ended up having to do a reinstall. With a fresh copy of os x 10.4 and a copy of bootcamp I was ready to conquer the world. I installed bootcamp, followed the instructions (first instruction allowed me to partiton the harddrive) and installed xp. The xp install got to the part where it had to restart and then it kept booting into OSX...what the crap. So i learned a very important hotkey, option. Hold down the option key during boot to select the boot device. I select xp and the install finishes. I get my drivers installed, set xp to the default boot option then boot into osx. I've never actually used xp on my mac. I love osx for surfing the web and coding. Expose is awesome and Microsoft should come up with something like it. My biggest complaint was the iLife 08' suite, which was the whole reason my wife wanted the mac. Every program slows the computer down drastically. It's so bad that you can only use that one program (and it's slow while your using it) then you have to close the program to do anything else. I don't know why apple hasn't fixed this yet but it's annoying. I had problems getting used to the short cuts and some minor things here and there that just bugged the crap out of me. But eventually I got used to them and even kind of like it then my wife decides she wants to sell the mac... we've only had it for three months if that. I suppose she is right, I can build a windows machine for half the price and twice the performance. Overall I liked osx but it's just to expensive for my blood. Apples statement that "it just works!" doesn't fit the computer business, nothing ever just works , it only kindof works.