If this is some kind of logic problem, I fail.

[effervescible]

I need to get a new computer. Here is my dilemma:

-I don't really want to get a laptop as my primary computer because I find them too squished together for desktop use, and I have a nice LCD monitor I want to continue to use.
-I like Macs but they are effin' expensive, and $1000 minimum is really more than I can justify. I have never in my life taken on credit card debt I couldn't pay off at the end of the month and I'm not going to start now.
-So I could buy a PC but there's the issue of Vista. Fucking Vista. I don't want Vista, and even if I get a computer with XP on it or install XP over Vista, in time, Vista's gonna be the way of things and I am not enthused about that.
-Linux. Let's just say "NO" and leave it at that. Besides, I don't have any pirated Photoshop for Linux.

So this leaves me in a position of...NOTHING is suitable, so I sit spinning my wheels and using the old computer. Which sort of sucks since the secondary hard drive died in, like, February.

WHAT DO I DO?

Comments

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

I like a_hollow_year's suggestion to build your compy better, bigger, stronger, faster, but if you want to buy new, I'll tell you that Vista ain't all that bad. It uses up a lot of memory, so I put in a stick of 1GB RAM when I bought my laptop (bringing it to 1GB and 512 MB). It doesn't take a terrible amount of getting used to. My parents work it out fine, and they're fairly illiterate. You can get a decent eMachines at Best Buy for $400-500, since you already like your monitor.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

But it won't run my pirated programs! I NEED my pirated programs!