Last week, my old Dell box from 2001 – still running Windows 2000 Pro – finally gave up the ghost. It was still sort of working, but so painful slowly as to be unuseable. I inherited the machine from an old employer and did not have a copy of Windows to re-install on it. The drive had become so fragmented, even DiskKeeper couldn’t defrag it. So I finally bit the bullet and bought a $300 Dell Inspiron. It arrived just a few days after placing my order.

I have to say, I’m fairly pleased with the overall Dell/Vista experience so far. I
especially like the way parental controls work in Vista. Compared with OS X (Tiger), parental controls are MUCH better in Vista. Leopard has some improvements in this area, but too little too late, I’d say. The box came with Microsoft Works, which isn’t half bad – the grammar & spell checking (which my kids have come to rely on for their homework) are equivalent to Word. The built-in email client is also quite good, and setting up accounts was a breeze.

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So I’m sure folks are wondering why a Mac fan like me would buy a Windows box? The reason is this application – Dragon Naturally Speaking. My kids are using speech-to-text for their homework (since they have such a hard time writing), and this program – by far the best of its kind – only runs on Windows. And sure, I could buy a new Mac with Leopard and use Boot Camp to run Windows (purchased separately)… but why, when I can get a brand new box that does the job for $300?