Do you remember back in the day when you actually shut your computer off every time after you used it? Yeah, me too. Before there was “power saving mode” and power management, you turned it off, just like you did your television. As someone who worked at Best Buy for 7 years, I happen to know for a fact that an electronic device only has so many hours of life before it will no longer function. It’s just a fact of life. So why is it we have all been programmed to think it is okay to leave our computers powered on 24/7? I blame Microsoft and their Windows product. A computer is NOT a refrigerator that needs to keep once living products edible.
I don’t know about you but I have been living the last 20 years of my life fighting with computers. Do you know I have half a dozen computers that are broken but still work. Do you have that nagging screen to fix something or a file is missing? You click okay, and then it goes away. Computer seems to work, you can open your files and get on the internet. Hmm, oh well, and you let it go, … until the next time your computer locks up and you have to reboot. If this doesn’t sound familiar or a deja vu for you, then bare with me as this is what happens to me on a daily basis. I went and bought a Windows 8 machine, and I have to say I hate that too. Granted, it wasn’t the fastest machine out there, but I should be able to have several windows open, playing music, and not have to see that hateful spinning circle telling you that your pc is once again, too slow for you. I blame Microsoft. Why does my computer have to run an operating system that is constantly dragging ass?
So the other day I am working on like, 4 different websites, I have Photoshop open and probably 20 windows. I get a call, I have to leave and when I come back, all my work has been lost, my windows closed and I have the hateful message “Your computer has recovered from a fatal error.” It never dawns on me that maybe that little nagging message that is always pestering me, MIGHT have had an impact on what was going on with my computer.
At that point you really have nothing to do but move on. Whatever I created I can recreate; just not on that hateful machine. At some point I figured out that what I do nowadays doesn’t require a Microsoft product, I use a browser for most of my work. I wish I could say that my Apple experiences were wonderful, but remember, I worked for Best Buy and then for 4 years worked for AT&T, when they were the exclusive carrier for the iPhone. I have seen a ton of busted up broken Apple products, including my own iPhone, iPad, and original iPod.