Rodent Regatta

I’m sitting here typing on a brand new HP notebook PC running Windows XP Professional. It’s got a big screen, it’s fast, and it only does 4 or 5 quirky things a day. It’s great. 1.8 gigaton processor, 40 gigaton drive, 512 megaton memory. It’s da bomb.

You can’t turn it off, but it’s da bomb. If you turn it off, you’ll have to turn it on, let it lock up, turn it off and repeat – 10 times. Yep, 10 times does the trick. It has run for weeks without being turned off. Turn it off, though, and it will require 10 starts and stops to get it back.

So, I’m sitting here stumbling around. (That’s quite a trick by the way – sitting and stumbling.)

I run across John Robb’s mention of Ken Bereskin singing the praises of Apple. Only seconds before, I had been reading this about Linux and it took me over to kd:a blog. The conversion to Linux is discussed here.

Is it just toy envy? Why do I think about dumping windows? Linux laptop? Is there such a thing? Apple Powerbook?

Nope – not gonna do it. Focus. There are better ways to spend time and money. We’ll be eating at a restaurant near the Apple Store tonight. Focus.