Re:Only every 8 months? Lucky. (Score 1)

Most of our computers are macs, with my parents iMac running XP in bootcamp, cuz they use an older version of quicken for money. That's the one reason they have it... We have approximately 8-9 macs, including an old performa... ah, the memories! However, two years ago my parents purchased these $500 compaqs... NOOO... They are pretty lame computers, underpowered(even with my upgraded ram), and basically suck, plus they run vista home basic. LAME! So, I convinced my parents to allow me to put Ubuntu on one of them, just a dual boot. Guess what? After giving them all a quick intro to grub(so they could switch between vista and ubuntu), and about 2 minutes of the desktop interface, they all love it, and refuse to use vista. !! victory!! This includes my sister, who once wrote a blog entitled "The magic of computers... ooooh!!! shiny.". Yeah, she's not very tech savvy, but she is able to use it... I'm working on my dad(who is pretty good with computers, definitely a power user, just not a nerd) to allow me to totally wipe those laptops... Maybe if they get rid of them, I cld fix em up as servers... :D