@Ben Hall
Check your fan exhausts. Sounds like heat to me. That and if it's a work machine, and it's anything like around here... the thing probably gets restarted once every two weeks at best. Improper ventilation can easily cause every single one of those issues.
@ Author
I would rather have the option to change something then be told "This is how it is, suck it up."
The problem isn't the PC. Or Windows. It's the people in front of it. The people in front of it who, 4 times out of 5, think they know more then they do. That is how things get broken. But I suppose I don't have to make that point to the guy who deleted /USR, AMIRITE?
Macs are for creative people, because in general creative people aren't technical. Not that it's a bad thing. It just means you'd rather be editing videos or writing then squeezing 10% better performance out of your machine. That's fine. But there are plenty of people who enjoy that.
And, for the record, if cars were like macs, It'd cost $500,000 for the entry level model, you could never replace or fix anything on it yourself (at least without being berated by a mechanic), would come with two speeds "fast" and "off", and you'd only see them at pretentious coffee shops.
Free Your Creative Spirit: Get a Mac