Re: Ensure your New PC will run Vista

In article <2lsv329fpe1b9uj07qpgr3t0f81hq3ju53@xxxxxxx>,
tom_elam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:14:27 -0500, Jim Polaski
<jpolaski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just for those Mac folks who need to run Windows on a SA PC.

http://tinyurl.com/f9eyl

Annual Buying Guide:
How to Ensure New PC
Can Use Windows Vista
April 13, 2006; Page B1

It's a confusing time for computer buyers, and that makes this annual
spring buyer's guide to desktop computers harder to write than usual.
Microsoft's Windows XP operating system is in its last months of
primacy, yet the company still hasn't issued final guidelines for the
hardware you'll need to run Windows Vista, its successor, which is due
in January.

The rest is in the WSJ article.

My 6 year old 400 MHz laptop will run Vista. Just not with all the
bells and whistles. Gotta love Microsoft, they give you that option.
Apple often does not.

That's because Apple moves their OS forward with new features and
capabilities, while "new" Windows OSes are just service packs for the
"same old ***." XP isn't a much different experience from Win98 and is
certainly just as clunky. From what I've seen of Vista its the same
***, different day. The same clumsy Explorer, Windows still can't
clean-up after itself without help from an "uninstaller", same kludgey
looking, oversized icons (now with "transparency" Whoopie!), same
endless pop-ups, etc., etc., etc.

Microsoft had a chance to start with a clean *** of paper with Vista
and give you poor SOBs a truly great OS, but instead, they just decided
to redress the same old tired, out-of-date GUI where new features are
rare (might break legacy apps. Can't have that!) and the same weaknesses
are prepetuated forever.

--
George Graves
The health of our society is a direct result of the men
and women we choose to admire.
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