Re: computer rebuild for editing

"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:5soi2iF19lj1pU1
@mid.individual.net:

"Bob Ford" wrote ...
The horror stories I have recently heard is there are all kinds of
other things besides programs that may need to be changed to be
compatible with Vista?

It seems like hardware vendors are slower to upgrade their drivers
for Vista. But maybe I am just getting old and curmudgeonly.

The main "benefits" of Vista don't seem like positives to me...

It's the laws of a free economy. You have to constantly offer a new
product to generate new sales, especially if you competitors (Mac, Linux)
do it. That's why we get bigger, more bloated versions of Windows that
require more horsepower to essentially do the same thing they did before.

I had Vista on a new laptop for about a month before I got sick of doing
less, with 95% of my RAM eaten up by the OS. I wiped the HDD clean and
installed XP Pro, and suddenly had 85% of my RAM available to *me*.


jaybee
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