Cool. If you're balking at Vista for whatever reason, Microsoft will let you downgrade Ultimate or Business.
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§ ita § - Sep 24, 2007 12:28:30 pm PDT #2838 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
bon bon - Sep 24, 2007 12:50:11 pm PDT #2839 of 25496
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
FWIW, I've learned a couple things about Vista from installing it this weekend/the internet. One, if you buy an upgrade disk, apparently you can't clean install it and validate it-- you need your XP disk to install, which I don't have. But according to the internet you can cheat by installing from the vista disk and then upgrading from the same disk, then activating. I haven't tried this yet.
Also, it's pretty ridiculously slow unless you turn off a lot of the features, like indexing. I was surprised at that. I understand it works well if you have top-of-the-line equipment, but I thought that was the case with my Latitude D800.
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2007 12:51:55 pm PDT #2840 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Does it just take a while to index everything the first time? I think Spotlight on my iBook took an hour or two to index everything, during which time it was pretty darn slow.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2007 12:54:50 pm PDT #2841 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gack! I still want the timeline on the Leopard free/cheap upgrade. I just read that G4 and Leopard will not play nicely. I'm pretty sure my laptop is a G5, but I'm flaking on the detail.
Minis you get with extra memory pre-installed, right, because they're tight inside?
Sheeit. I need to get all that worked out before my new TV. I may never get new clothes ever again.
bon bon - Sep 24, 2007 12:54:51 pm PDT #2842 of 25496
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
It's always indexing in the background, apparently, which is why it's slow. Just turning it off took about 45 minutes of...indexing!
Typo Boy - Sep 24, 2007 1:19:24 pm PDT #2843 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Also the "free" downgrade. You still have to have the XP disk. I guess the point is that since they give you a code, you can borrow the disk from a friend and install it semi-legally.
Tom Scola - Sep 24, 2007 1:20:19 pm PDT #2844 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Apple never made a G5 laptop. Leopard will run on a G4 as long as its 867MHz or better. You can find out how fast your CPU is by going to the "About this Mac..." window.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2007 1:22:01 pm PDT #2845 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Apple never made a G5 laptop. Leopard will run on a G4 as long as its 867MHz or better.
I'm of two minds about that upgrade anyway. I think I got the last laptop before Intel, but still.
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2007 1:25:28 pm PDT #2846 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Apple never made a G5 laptop.
Apparently that was one of the reasons for the switch to Intel - IBM (or whoever was doing the PowerPC chips then) never could make a G5 chip with low enough power consumption and heat to work in a laptop.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2007 1:29:21 pm PDT #2847 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Slow people's LCD TV questions:
- 1080p is better than 1080i. But is it worth the extra cost? If I have no articulated plans to upgrade my DVD system, is it a waste of money to buy now?