[CTS] Re: Vista PC Downgrade to XP
- From: "Charles R. Buchanan" <daphatbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:17:21 -0800
That will always be the between a rock and a hard place situation. I
build my own, and it usually end up costing a LOT more than a put
together system most of the time, but those put together systems usually
mean, onboard video, two or three pci slots, 128-512mb ram and so forth.
Oh, can't forget the 40-80gb hard drive! :-P
In theory mind you, my present (main) computer:
AMD64 x2 3800+ (dual core)
2gb Dual Channel RAM
ATI/ Radeon X1300 256mb pci-e Video Card
1 200gb sata hd
1 250gb sata hd
2 320gb sata hd's
1 cd-burner
1 dvd-rom
1 dvd-burner
This system "should" be able to run Vista. According to system
requirements from M$. We will see REAL soon. Hopefully this week I'll be
getting Vista. Not sure which flavor though. (It's a gift from someone)
I will be doing a full, clean install. Upgrading XP to vista seems to
take at the very least TWO hours from most accounts. :-O
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 05:34:06 -0800 (PST), Ray Roney <qix_68@xxxxxxxxx> took time
to say the following:
> The cost of the individual parts is what's holding me back, really.
>
> I can spend $400 and buy the parts I want (Case, MB, CPU, RAM, VidCard) or I
> can spend $400 and get a whole new system INCLUDING a new HD (250GB SATA).
>
> It just made some sense to me...but now that Vista is out, i'm rethinking
> that idea too.
>
> We'll see what happens...it just makes me ill regardless.
>
> Thanks for the input...and any other ideas you all have. :)
>
> -- Ray --
>
>
> "You Can See How Spoiled A Society Is...By What It Throws Away." -- Lynn
> Johnston
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Charles R. Buchanan <daphatbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, March 5, 2007 8:14:49 AM
> Subject: [CTS] Re: Vista PC Downgrade to XP
>
> A post from a local list I'm on:
>
> --------------------
>
> Anyone as disappointed with Vista as I am?
>
> Recently purchased a "Vista Basic" notebook for my wife, Toshiba. Only
> did so for the price (President's day sale) with the thought of loading
> XP. Turns out this is a Vista only notebook as there are no XP drivers
> and of course Toshiba has spec'd propritary hardware. Drivers direct
> from ATI and others don't work.
> Hours/Days later with a clean install of Vista Business and Office 2007
> the hardware barely runs the software even will all the fluff turned
> off. This is only half the battle. I have disabled UAC, etc but Vista
> still gets in the way.
> Long story short, I'm all in favor of principle of least privedge but...
> If I'm using my domain admin account, I want to be an admin. To my way
> of thinking, MS will need to release a hot fix or SP if they ever want a
> business to adopt this. I have no time to deal with this getting in the
> way at my place of business nor could I afford to spec each and every
> desktop and notebook with 2GB of memory.
>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> I see a trend going on here....... :-O
>
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 04:06:05 -0800 (PST), Ray Roney <qix_68@xxxxxxxxx> took
> time to say the following:
>
>
> > I just want to know if this guy was just BS'ing me to get me
> > to buy a Vista PC (Which I can't stand Vista until they get
> > the bugs worked out --OR-- SP1 (whichever one comes first)).
> > Thanks... :)
> >
> > -- Ray --
>
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