Discomfited German hurls PC from window, police sympathize
By Darren Murph 
posted July 18th 2007 2:37AM
posted July 18th 2007 2:37AM
Trust us, there's been quite a few days in which a dysfunctional PC was kicked around at Engadget HQ for eating posts and intentionally inserting typos, but we've yet to become so flustered that we needed to launch one out of the building. Interestingly enough, a disgruntled 51-year-old German just couldn't resist, as he actually flung his PC out of a window during the middle of the night, which startled neighbors and garnered a visit from local police. Of course, the boys in blue did exactly as they should, and left the man with nary a warning after apparently sympathizing with his technical frustrations. Granted, the rattled PC hurler was forced to clean up the mess from the streets below, but we can safely assume he felt an awful lot better after showing that hunk of plastic who was really in charge.[Via TGDaily]
@ grant
What piece of crap computer are you running? I've been running beta 2 on a machine with a 939 sempron 3400+ 1.8 ghz, 1 gb of RAM, radeon x700 pro 256 ram, and a 120 gb hdd and I can play BF2 on medium just fine.
That monitor looks like a Sony GDM-FW___
Does soemone always have to start up the MS vs. Apple Debate in EVERY post! Jeesh.. lay off 4 a sec okay!
plus the guy was probably a n00b who had never seen a computer before and thought his word document crashed when he accidentally hit the minimize button...
My take on vista; Vista needs a more powerful system than many (cheap) existing systems...blame the hardware, not the software for (many of) your pc woes.
It's not the hardware's fault Vista is bloated.
I'd have to disagree with you there Ryhan. Yes Vista is a more hardware demanding application, but Vista is worse in every sense compared to XP, that is if you're concerned about performance, especially for games. If it's about security I would say it's a different concern.
try running XP on an old Pentium II computer. I had to deal with that when my dad refused to buy a new PC...I felt like throwing it out the window. because the start menu took 4 minutes to open up...