Tikkabik

I've spent most of the afternoon and part of the evening messing around with my G5 -- I'm preparing a few reviews for a column that's due Monday and need to grab some screenshots, fact-check myself and do a few other things.

I took the opportunity to run some much-needed maintenance and updating, which went well -- at least until it came time to install Virtual PC 7, which I'd gotten when it first came out. I'd installed it on my PowerBook G4 but had since deleted it in a fit of pique after realizing just how wretched it still is to run an emulated Windows PC on the Macintosh.

I figured that things would at least be better with the G5 -- after all, it's 1GHz faster, has two and a half times the memory and a much faster bus architecture. And it is.

But there's one problem: Windows XP still sucks.