Yeah, this is for my mom, and she is not building a machine nor am I building one for her.
My family has the Sony Vaio at home. It seems fine.
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Polter-Cow - Nov 05, 2010 6:13:10 am PDT #15361 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Gudanov - Nov 05, 2010 6:15:30 am PDT #15362 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
I had a Toshiba laptop with 2GB of memory and Vista ran/runs just fine.
I don't think there would be much trouble going from Vista to Windows 7, they aren't much different though 7 has plenty of refinements. But I don't think I'd upgrade either.
tommyrot - Nov 05, 2010 6:15:33 am PDT #15363 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A year ago we got all new computers at work, and for the first time we hired outside consultants to set everything up. They strongly discouraged us from having Vista installed, so we got the workstations with XP. They said if their clients insisted on Vista, they would charge twice as much for support than they would for XP.
So far my bosses have made no noises of switching to 7.
bon bon - Nov 05, 2010 6:48:56 am PDT #15364 of 25501
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I'm the only person I know who doesn't curse Vista every day of its use.
You know, I've never had a problem with Vista. I'm not a superuser or anything but both of my machines with it have been trouble-free.
Dana - Nov 05, 2010 7:08:39 am PDT #15365 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I have Vista on my laptop and am fine with it.
omnis_audis - Nov 05, 2010 7:39:11 am PDT #15366 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
as a mac user, I have a win7 Compaq laptop. It's a single core processor. It works just fine. It's almost like MacOS-lite. Some frustrating things every once in awhile, but nothing like 95 days. I think its a better interface than XP. Mind you, 90% of what I do on it is e-mail and cruising the internet. Occasionally I try to stream a video to my xbox. It has moderate success with that. But I blame the single core processor on that.
- * reason for getting win laptop instead of mac? Price. This little puppy was on sale for $300 at Best Buy. I was looking to replace my iPod for travel. $50 more, and got a full computer. I got it in February (I think).
Theodosia - Nov 05, 2010 7:59:31 am PDT #15367 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Heh. Noticed when I went to Vividcon last year that vidding fan girls squee over cute little notebook computers just like they were babies. These women (and a few men) are the exact Venn diagram intersection of computer savvy and "feminine" aesthetics.
Laga - Nov 05, 2010 8:13:49 am PDT #15368 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm mad because we bought a computer with Vista on it at Best Buy and they told us that it came with a free upgrade to Windows 7. When Windows 7 became available we called Best Buy and they told us the software was free but we had to pay to have someone from the geek squad come out and istall it. I don't hate Vista that much.
tommyrot - Nov 05, 2010 8:16:35 am PDT #15369 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
When Windows 7 became available we called Best Buy and they told us the software was free but we had to pay to have someone from the geek squad come out and istall it.
Ooh. That ain't right.
Is there a term for that? Sorta' like "bait-and-switch"?
Gudanov - Nov 05, 2010 8:24:52 am PDT #15370 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
7th Guest is coming to iOS. Cool. Not enough for me to justify buying an iPod Touch, but cool nonetheless.