please help before i throw my pc in the bin!

Leopard

"be_alright",

I'm indeed not "on a crusade to change everyone to a Mac" and I've already made it clear that it's fine by me if people prefer to use different operating systems. You're the one who introduced the word "zealot".

The reason that there's no useful point in entering into a debate here about the details of the underlying software technology is because the only thing the vast majority of people who use computers care about is the user experience: they don't want to spend their time messing about with it, trying to make a recaltricant operating system work properly. That's what you fail to grasp. The cause of why it isn't operating may be fascinating to a software engineer but is greatly less the point to the user than the fact that it isn't working. They. like Chardonnay, simply want something that does work.

If your car doesn't start, you are less directly concerned with the reason why that is than in the fact that it doesn't start. That's because you're looking at it from the point of view of somebody who needs to drive somewhere; not from the point of view of someone called in to repair it.

For that reason, if you're not a mechanic, it's better to buy a car that does start reliably (for whatever reason) than one that doesn't (for whatever reason). A car that starts will get the children to school; a car that doesn't will not. You will feel less emotionally disposed to scrap a car that gets the children to school than one that doesn't - irrespective of why it doesn't.

Bury your head in the sand if you wish to, personally, but anyone with any objectivity can see, by looking at the index of this forum, that some 99% of the people who come to it with computer woes are using PCs with Windows and very few of them are Apple users. It's unlikely that only 1% of the MSE user base uses a Mac.

Those who do use Macs are horrified by the degree of problems expressed by PC users in these threads and the complexity of the solutions suggested, kindly but frequently unsuccessfully, by others to resolve them. Almost always these involve the Windows operating system and usually because it isn't operating.

As to cost, you might shy away from spending £3,000 on a computer but if it outlasts two successive £2,000 computers and doesn't crash when you're facing urgent deadlines, and the other two do, it's better value (quite apart from issues of component reliability and any preference as to user experience).

My advice to Chardonnay was that if she was indeed minded, as she declared, to bin her PC she would probably feel less inclined to bin her next one if she bought a Mac instead.

The fact that this is largely so because Apple designs both the hardware and the software to ensure that it all works harmoniously is not the point. The only point that interests the consumer is the fact that, as a result, it does work and is seldom difficult to deal with.

I'm neither a zealot nor interested in arguing with one. I offered some gentle lateral advice to Chardonnay: you intervened and presumed to dismiss it as "ludicrous". Which verdict has already been dismissed by another poster. So, which of us two is the real zealot?

Shudder if you so wish. I wrote what I did, I stand by it and if you disagree with it I consider you are fully entitled to your dissenting opinion - which I have read with an open mind, unbiased by your illiteracy.

banger9365

how much do's it cost to fix a mac ??? when it go's wrong
how do you upgrade a mac
mac mac

Sput2001

I don't want to get into the Mac vs PC debate again, but as someone who happily uses both on a regular basis, the whole "Macs Never Crash And PCs Do All The Time" attitude is utter fallacy.

Macs are perfectly capable of crashing, and much as it flies against the received wisdom round here, I'd say Macs were actually marginally less reliable in that respect.

BritBrat

Do you have a COA label on your computer?

Do you know the product Key?

What system did you have installed before?

MyNamesJakeee

Download 'Last XP V14'
You can download it from certain sites using a tool called Azureus.
Now, i cant really say much more as i dont know what people in here think of doing that sort of stuff but it will surely work.
It has hundreds of recovery tools included which will 100% fix your computer.
I use this as it happened to me once, wasnt letting me delete my partition on my hardisk so i installed this XP and used one of the tool in it to resolve my problem.

Hope you get it sorted

C_Ronaldo

Id give linux a go,