An lump of coal is brighter than my HP. It went to its maker Friday. I'd have gone the u-fix-it route but the warranty gods don't smile upon that sort of thing. Laptop service is one of the most annoying computer potholes.
The choice of OS for my haul-around-to-customer-site-machine is largely made by my customers. Now, Parallels might do the trick if it does good XP uptimes.
Still have to stop by a Mac store.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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