Working When Your Technology Doesn’t Want To

As a freelancer writer, I do a lot of articles that necessitate web research. I am not an expert in many of the subjects I write about, so I pop all over the web many times in a given day. As someone who has multiple browsers open for much of the day, can I just say: Vista sucks!

I average about two necessary restarts per day, or else I freeze up. This also means I can’t run my iTunes in the background or anything, lest I suddenly require three restarts!

Last year I bought this fully tricked out Dell Inspiron 1720 because… well, it’s pink. I invested a good chunk of money to make sure I had enough RAM and hard drive, only to find it’s no better than the Toshiba Satellite I threw over for it.

I blame Vista, and its largesse, for these RAM and virtual memory problems. It is such a huge operating system that all of its superfluous tidbits take up the space I need to do my actual work with.

Hey, you Mac geeks – d’you have problems like this?