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bob
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00:19, Monday, 17 November 2003
So, my mother-in-law called me the other day, asking me to diagnose her Windows Millenium Edition machine that'd freeze after running for about 10 minutes. Now, I'm completely Windows ignorant, but I poked around anyhow. Basically, all I could come up with was "ayup, you're right, it freezes after ten minutes." I figured maybe I could upgrade to WinXP as a solution. Upon further thought, I decided that was just a bandage to a bloody head wound. After doing a cost/benefit analysis, considering the hours of my time over the lifetime of the in-law relationship, I simply decided to amputate and replace.
So, I knocked upon the door today with a bag of new hardware and said "congratulations, you're a Mac user now!" She's now been vaulted into the 21st century with a G4 iBook, Airport Extreme, Wifi route/WAP combination and a bundle of new software. It was easier than dying a slow death diagnosing Windows.
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