April 17, 2006
“I hate Windows.”
Posted Apr. 17, ’06, 8:21 PM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Apple » Rivals
Ben Goodger of Mozilla and now Google fame, isn’t very satisfied with his Windows computer lately. In fact, it seems to degrade over time.
When I bought this machine, a Dell Precision M60 with a Pentium M 1.7GHz processor, a 7200rpm disk and a gig of RAM, it could compile Firefox start to stop in 21 minutes. Now it takes over an hour.
The situation is better on my Google-supplied workstation, but for how long? Over time, Windows reaches a point of being completely useless for anything aside from the most basic activities. What’s the effect? I had planned to work both days this weekend on Firefox 2 features. Instead I spent the whole time fighting one of the most frustrating fights possible, and have achieved nothing. I hate Windows. I hate this computer.
He also spent a lot of time fighting with Microsoft’s software development tools. I’m not saying Ben is representative of the entire Windows development community, but when such a revered member of that group working on such a high profile program has these kinds of problems, it doesn’t reflect well on Windows as a development platform. Ultimately though, in a follow up post Ben wonders if the solution is Apple’s MacBook Pro. Sounds about right to me.
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Where's the rest of this sentence? " I’m not saying Ben is representative of the entire Windows development community, but when such a revered member of that group working on such a high profile program has these kinds of problems. " ???
I finished the sentence. Sorry for the inconvenience.
I've experienced this same thing on my tablet. At first, it was snappy and worked well for normal development. Now, it's so terribly slow I'm going to be forced to reinstall to fix it. Incredibly irritating.