{"id":112,"date":"2008-12-23T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/2008\/12\/gateway-sucks-and-other-problems-with-pcs\/"},"modified":"2014-02-11T20:51:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T04:51:10","slug":"gateway-sucks-and-other-problems-with-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/gateway-sucks-and-other-problems-with-pcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Gateway Sucks and Other Problems with PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hard words during holiday times you might think, but if some corporate Assholes try to ruin your holiday spirit, you might would feel the same as I do. To say it only in a few words: Never ever buy a Gateway Computer!<\/b>. Gateway sucks<\/a> and they screw you over with a smile in their face. “Merry Christmas!<\/em>” Don’t come back whining later, because I told you.<\/p>\n

What’s the deal with Gateway? I posted in great detail about it<\/a> at my other blog over a month ago. That’s right, over one freaking month ago and guess what, my PC is still broken. No repair, no nothing.<\/p>\n

The hardware problem slows me down and also causes stress (what surprise) and anger. I am behind with a bunch of stuff, directly or indirectly as a result of the malfunctioning PC. <\/p>\n

This is only one issue<\/a> in a long list<\/a> of problems<\/a> that I had and have with PCs lately. After all the hassle and problems with Windows, which makes you waste a lot of time all on its own, the hardware issues are not needed to make bad things even worse. <\/p>\n

I was close to trashing the notebook (which would have been a bad idea), so I realized that I had to do something for anger management and to channel my negative energy into something that is not destructive… like creating a video :).?? Here is the result… it is actually pretty funny although you could also call this humor cynical sarcasm or something like that.<\/p>\n

[youtube:https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ItKosuqCezU]<\/p>\n

Backup URL to Video<\/a> at YouTube.<\/p>\n

You can download the original AVI<\/a> video at Mediafire.com<\/p>\n

I talked about buying a PC for a while now and came to the point where I am pretty much ready to get a Macintosh. I had some communication with Chris Pirillo<\/a> and he suggested that I wait a little bit longer, because there is a product line update due by Apple pretty soon. <\/p>\n

I am using a PC since January\/February 1991. That are over 17, almost 18 years. The time that I spent on a Macintosh in my whole life can be measured in minutes. So a switch is not only a technical decision, it would also be an emotional one, almost like a divorce. <\/p>\n

Well, it ain’t going to happen this year, earliest next month in January 2009. I guess that the switch will be my “new years resolution”. I hope that you, the reader of this blog, do not have issues like I do, at least not during the holidays and hope that you will have a good time with friends and family.<\/p>\n

Cheers and Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Kwanzaa<\/strong> to you! Chances are slim that I write another prost during the upcoming Christmas days tomorrow and after.<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n

Carsten aka Roy\/SAC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hard words during holiday times you might think, but if some corporate Assholes try to ruin your holiday spirit, you might would feel the same as I do. To say it only in a few words: Never ever buy a Gateway Computer!. Gateway sucks and they screw you over with a smile in their face. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}