We bought a Toshiba laptop with Vista on it about a year ago, it has 2 MB RAM and is absolutely perfect. The only teeny tiny problem we had with Vista was that it didn't recognise our printer driver so we downloaded a new one from the canon website. TBH the only people I have heard complaining about Vista are those who have Dell computers because Dell semmingly pre load their computers with loads of software and some of these have issues with Vista.
Depends on the license. OEM Windows licenses are tied to the machine they originally came with or were installed on and are not transferrable even if deleted from the original machine. If you do manage to install on another machine then you may have problems with product activation, getting Windows updates etc. You may be able to get a genuine generic OEM Windows but there are some dodgy offers out there (especially on eBay). Otherwise you would have to buy Windows retail which will probably be c. €100+.You could install your existing XP on the new machine if you can't order it with XP.
IMO, Vista is perfect for the home user. Fancy GUI and little shortcuts all over the place to make day-to-day internet browsing, music/movie playing all work like a charm.
but if you plan on doing anything intensive (software development etc) that requires you to configure lots of settings that then Vista's not for you. just my 0.02c
That's what Microsoft wants people to think.If you buy XP, you must know that the machine will not be supported for very long as Microsoft have phased out XP support. Vista will last you longer.I'd rather buy a machine that is supported than one that will soon be declared officially obsolete and with no support at all!!!
Im purely home user...99% of use is internet browsing and / or downloading music, films etc and I find it constantly freezes when i have 3 r more web pages open - IMO a problem that should have been ironed out in the development stage.
I don't think that this is correct. Vista is a sow. IMHO it's better to stick to XP Pro + SP3 and skip Vista on to Windows 7 (of course not until SP1 or SP2 for Windows & is availableIf you buy XP, you must know that the machine will not be supported for very long as Microsoft have phased out XP support. Vista will last you longer.I'd rather buy a machine that is supported than one that will soon be declared officially obsolete and with no support at all!!!
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