just watched dr strangelove, i want to talk about it noooww

[Plug Drugs]

the main difference between you and me is that i am on the tightest budget a person can be on,
and when it comes to cost-effectiveness, windows>mac

[maks]

i reinstall my OS every year or so when shit gets bogged down,
i keep all my important files organized so they are easy to back up when the time comes
reinstalling windows and getting things set up again takes a few hours, but its a fair price to pay for knowing that any piece of software i download will be written for windows and the programmers making a version for mac only comes secondary

That's the right way to handle windows. I got sick of that, I want the machine I do my browsing and banking on to stay the same until it's time to replace it. You should try using the built in ntbackup, it does a reasonable good job of putting back personal stuff

the main difference between you and me is that i am on the tightest budget a person can be on,
and when it comes to cost-effectiveness, windows>mac

The price doesn't have a lot to do with the os, it's just that apple doesn't bother selling cheap hardware. If I hadn't gone with the macbook pro I would have spent just as much on a different high end, reliable machine and ran ubuntu on it.