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Excuses, excuses.
If they didn't cost so damn much, I'd buy a Mac.
What about you?
Vista, XP, or Mac? Why? Share your pain.
1 posted on 01/30/2008 10:17:25 AM PST by XR7
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If they didn't cost so damn much, I'd buy a Mac.

Don't confuse cost with price.

2 posted on 01/30/2008 10:20:14 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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That is why dell is still selling new systems with xp.
3 posted on 01/30/2008 10:21:42 AM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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i bought a bootleg copy of Vista in Moscow last year, a month before MS released it. (have no desire to use it).


4 posted on 01/30/2008 10:21:47 AM PST by tired1 (responsibility without authority is slavery!)
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I had the same choice recently.

Went with a Mac. Works like a champ. With VMWare, I’m running WinXP on the Mac as well as OS X.

Then with Apple bringing out the Time Capsule as the back-end for Time Machine (the backup facility under the latest OS X), hey, backups are about to become pud-easy.

The other thing about Vista that I don’t like is the DRM crap. I run a legit shop, and being treated like a felon is simply offensive.


5 posted on 01/30/2008 10:22:38 AM PST by NVDave
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Well, I know Mac users tout the wonderfulness of their desktops, and I haven’t worked with a Mac too often. But when I have, I have been very frustrated by the lack of a right mouse button and a delete key.

As for Vista, after having bought a family computer with it installed last year, my own opinion is that XP is much better.

I just recently helped my mother-in-law buy a desktop, and I ordered her a Dell business model because it was the only one I could find with XP available instead of Vista.

I’m only glad my trusty laptop Charlene has XP instead of Vista.


6 posted on 01/30/2008 10:22:47 AM PST by Maceman
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I'm considering building my own system in the next couple of months. My current plan involves having Vista as the Host machine, and running Parallels Workstation to generate virtual machines running Linux and XP. That way I have access to three OS's without needing to re-boot into the OS I want.

I don't expect to spend a lot of time in a Vista environment, but as time goes by, I think it may be nice to have. And games aren't going to work well in a virtual machine, so the host will be useful for that.

7 posted on 01/30/2008 10:24:28 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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In addition to me, my business has three partners. All of us have brand spanking new computers, but I was the only one to insist on the XP operating system for mine.

Whose computer do you think functions every day, without any problems? You got that right.

Like ME, Vista should be cast on the dung heap of software history.


10 posted on 01/30/2008 10:29:24 AM PST by Birdland
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12 posted on 01/30/2008 10:31:42 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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XP ... that one, they got right.
13 posted on 01/30/2008 10:32:01 AM PST by ArrogantBustard
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The main problem with Vista is Microsoft treats its users like children, slapping their hands and scolding them whenever they try to do anything Microsoft has determined they’re too stupid to do, like install software or move a file.


15 posted on 01/30/2008 10:34:14 AM PST by counterpunch (Mike Huckabee — The Religious Wrong)
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*** What about you? Vista, XP, or Mac? Why? Share your pain. ***

I have no pain:-)

My new p.c., a made in the USA Systemax, which I bought last May, came with XP Pro (SP2) and Vista Pro loaded (no extra cost), but NOT running, XP is the OS.

I have three years (length of warranty) to turn Visa on. All I do is call Tech support - also in the USA at the factory - and they run me through the steps of making Vista the OS.

Knowing the issues with Vista they were pretty smart doing that and the only p.c. manufacturer that gives you XP and Vista (to my knowledge).

(And I wouldn't take a Mac on a bet, let alone buy one.)

17 posted on 01/30/2008 10:35:34 AM PST by Condor51 (I wouldn't vote for McInsane, ever -- even if Waterboarded!)
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XP works fine for me. I’ve never been the type to need the “latest and greatest” just because.


19 posted on 01/30/2008 10:36:17 AM PST by GATOR NAVY (Your parents will all receive phone calls instructing them to love you less now.)
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xp works great. theres no way im upgrading to vista. if it aint broke, dont fix it.


20 posted on 01/30/2008 10:38:59 AM PST by philsfan24
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I switched to a Mac late last year. (iMac, 2.4 GHz dual processor, 2 GB SDRAM, 20” screen), she’s a beaut I tell ya!

Other than issues I’ve had with trying to play Windows games on it (using Parallels Desktop), I haven’t had a lick of trouble.

It’s worth the cost. It really, really is.


21 posted on 01/30/2008 10:39:25 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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I'm running one of my five computers at home under XP. The only hard part I had was convincing the Windows firewall and my McAffee firewall to work together, and thus allow safe but complete infotransfer in my LAN, but that was mostly my inexperience and not Bill Gate's fault.

This upgrade was driven only by my interest in "keeping up", as the many people I help with their computer problems had moved on, and I needed to understand how to work on their problems. For myself, I am happy as a clam with Win88SE as a rock solid, hardly ever crashing system that is easy to use (in my environement anyway.)

I am often given used parts or boxes which I gig up for students, the elderly, or as MAME arcade machines, and 98 is far enough behind the curve that it is fine for a new/used system. XP is so rabid about "tinkering" that if you change too much of your system, it demands your original software Key (which I have), but even the idea of Bill's people keeping THAT much of an eye on my personal computer just makes me uneasy and annoyed. I'm supposed to buy seperate copies of XP for every machine in my house after I have legitimately paid for XP? I can carry a paperback book I bought from room-to-room of my home and don't need to buy five copies of it. Pthpppppppt!

Vista? Just a chance to sell me the same car I already own, but slap tail fins and fuzzy dice on it and tell me it's a new car. I've heard nothing but trouble about it, and at the moment, any machine I am likely to build, either from scraps or from new parts for speed, seems to still run 98 just fine. Vista? Don't make me laugh.

22 posted on 01/30/2008 10:39:31 AM PST by 50sDad (Liberals: Never Happy, Never Grateful, Never Right.)
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Some initial problems with non-microsoft apps, but all have been fixed in my case.

I love it! I am used to it now and make it work for me like no other op system that I have used. And........it is very secure.

23 posted on 01/30/2008 10:39:35 AM PST by Cold Heat (Mitt....2008)
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25 posted on 01/30/2008 10:42:06 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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No thanks, Mr. Gates. You can keep it.


26 posted on 01/30/2008 10:42:56 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (If McCain wins, we lose)
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Windows 2000 works fine for me. Well it did the last time I booted it. That was about three years ago. Been happily running SuSE in dual boot configuration since then.

I guess I should really go in and delete the Windows partition and give the space to SuSE.

27 posted on 01/30/2008 10:42:58 AM PST by AFreeBird (No Romney, No Rudy, No McLame, No Huck, No Paul! Toss the GOP into the ashcan of History.)
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I have been a Window person until this year. My next one will be a MAC.


30 posted on 01/30/2008 10:45:06 AM PST by bmwcyle (What is the American voter thinking?)
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