The Vista experience
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The Vista experience
No 1 son sent me this, and I cannot see a previous post. E&OE as usual. It is important viewing for those who do not believe in Vista (or fairies at the bottom of the garden).
Warning to Saab - there are a few adverts in this, but it is worth watching!
Warning to Saab - there are a few adverts in this, but it is worth watching!
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Joined: Feb 2007
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From: Dublin, Ireland. (No, I just live here.)
I think it's a conspiracy to sell hardware, to be honest. I just found an old text file with the spec of a PC I was thinking of buying back in The Year 1999. The phone I bought last year (HTC Excalibur) has as much oomph, but fits in my pocket.
I'm at university now, so I want small, light, efficient, and (above all) inexpensive. The budget laptops these days are big and heavy, so I'm looking forward to getting an ASUS eeePC (about £220), probably after New Year. .
I'm at university now, so I want small, light, efficient, and (above all) inexpensive. The budget laptops these days are big and heavy, so I'm looking forward to getting an ASUS eeePC (about £220), probably after New Year. .
Joined: Feb 2007
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From: Dublin, Ireland. (No, I just live here.)
Well, I think the eeePC, OLPC and other forthcoming low-cost Linux systems are partly a reaction to Vista, and Microsoft's direction. The higher hardware requirements are keeping prices higher than they strictly need to be, not that the bigger PC makers are complaining.
For laptops in particular, solid state drives (SSDs) are a great idea, slowly coming down in price, but they're not up to HDD spec yet. Vista is a bit much for these drives, not just because of its size, but also because of all the other stuff it has going on in the background, writing to the drive. (Flash memory eventually wears out after a certain number of writes.)
I'm not exactly anti-Microsoft in general, but I wish they'd done things differently. I don't need the OS to do more, I'd like it to work on hardware that is more reliable. lighter, and yes, cheaper.
For laptops in particular, solid state drives (SSDs) are a great idea, slowly coming down in price, but they're not up to HDD spec yet. Vista is a bit much for these drives, not just because of its size, but also because of all the other stuff it has going on in the background, writing to the drive. (Flash memory eventually wears out after a certain number of writes.)
I'm not exactly anti-Microsoft in general, but I wish they'd done things differently. I don't need the OS to do more, I'd like it to work on hardware that is more reliable. lighter, and yes, cheaper.
