Re: OT: For Matthias
- From: Dillon Pyron <dmpyronINVALID@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:25:58 -0500
Thus spake Grumman-581 <grumman581@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:25:17 GMT, "chilly" <slarson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I'm in the market for a new computer. I'm getting two stories. The guys at
work and our IT guy are telling me to make sure I buy one loaded with
Windows XP because Vista is a piece of crap and at the very least will keep
me from being able to log-in from home.
I'm hearing from other IT guys that I should get the Vistas because XP will
soon be obsolete. I'm not the most computer savvy person to come down the
pike, so suffice to say, I'm extremely confused.
A little help here please?
Personally, I prefer Win2K over XP or Vista... I've got a couple of
machines with XP on them, but only because they came with it and I was
too lazy to hunt down all the drivers necessary to get them to work
under Win2K... The last 2 laptops that I bought were Compaq / HP units
from Fry's... They were less than $500 each... With XP, get at least
512M of memory... From what I've heard, don't even think about running
Vista with less than 1G of memory... I run Win2K with 1G and am rather
satisfied with its performance...
Fry's is selling a lot of lap tops with 2G these days. And desktops
with 4G. All with Vista Home Premium.
I think Dell still offers XP Pro as an option on some of their
machines.
Microsoft recently announced that they would now stop selling XP at
the end of the first quarter. As opposed to the end of this month.
Almost 90% of thier Vista sales have been new machines. They've
already admitted that the upgrade market isn't what they had hoped
for. The upgrade from W2K to XP was painless. Most of the W2K
machines were running 256MB. Which was okay for XP, although not
great. To upgrade to Vista, you need certain video cards, at least 1G
of memory and a 80G drive. And a DVD drive. If you buy the premium
upgrade and don't have those specs, it will only upgrade you to basic.
Which is essentially XP Pro. But you just paid an additional 25% for
nothing. And will you get your money back?
I know plenty of people still running NT.
I'm about to convert my Linux box from Red Hat to Ubuntu. Although I
though about SLES 10 for a while.
My Solaris box is running 9, my HP-UX box can't go past 11i.
--
dillon
Elvis is still dead
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