...according to [link|http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41004|The InQ: High speed granny has $250,000 of kit].

And at that kind of money, the hardest thing must have been just lugging the shtuff up to her apartment. I mean, installing Windows isn't *that* hard, after all -- you just insert a CD, sit there, and click "OK" a couple dozen times. Let's not pretend our line of work is "hard work", in the old-fashioned sense of the word.

And besides, it said she'd never had a computer before... And here we are all the time moaning how fricking hard it is to buy one *without* Windows pre-installed. So how fucking hard could it be, to just NOT *remove* the checkmark for "with Windows" on some vendor's ordering Web-page?!? (If they could even find one with such a selection TO (not!) remove -- but remember, the "hardship" of getting Windows also includes *not* having to look for such a vendor where you can de-select that. :-)