Stranger in a Strange World, Part 0

I plan to blog over the next few months about the fact that I'm currently doing a fair bit of my freelance work on a Windows PC. It's a short story -- my PowerBook G4 ran into a little snag a few days ago, forcing me to transfer the drive from my PowerBook to a Mac Mini in my office. That's what I'm using now for newspaper business.

Unfortunately, that left me without a laptop, and I need something to work from in the house, particular when I'm trying to write a book. So, I borrowed an HP Pavillion zt3000 from a friend of mine. I'm typing on it now. What I'm finding so far is that Windows is usable; I'm able to get some work done and, once I'd set the display preferences to my liking, the OS doesn't look too bad. And I'm slowly learning some of the short-cuts to move around in the OS, although it's surprising how many things look like they're from about 1997 -- I guess that's one difference between the constant march of updates to Mac OS X vs. the every-five-years-or-so updates by Microsoft.

I'll get deeper into my experiences a little later on, but let me just ask this one question...why is it that PC people don't take the stickers off their computers? What does it mean that this computer, after two years, still has the Intel and Windows stickers on it?

Can you imagine a MacBook with little Intel stickers on it? :-)