Jan 21, 2009
Giving away my windows computer
No no, I my not giving away free computers randomly. Or even regularly. I just decided that having 4 computers personally is more than enough. To much even. While I ran Windows upon my Intel Macs (Macbook Pro and iMac) I still had an ugly grey PC case below my desk. Occasionally I bummed my knee or foot against it, It disappeared beneath a pile of papers, it got attacked by a virus so I had to do a complete re-install of Windows XP SP2. But it still worked fine whenever I needed it.
But since I became more enthusiastic about working in an clean work environment I decided to get rid of that computer. The same day I decided to do so, I spoke to my brother. He wanted to buy another PC because his was becoming sluggish and old. Et voilá! My kind of retired workhorse found a new home. And as of today my home is completely run by Apple computers. Me like!
Of course a can’t get rid of Windows forever. Since I develop web-based applications I will continue to have a need for Windows and it’s IE versions.