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To: aft_lizard

Maybe so, but I am not happy with Vista, and I don’t intend to buy a Vista machine anytime soon (really, how many non-corporate users upgrade an OS on their existing machines).

Vista is too hardware intensive for me. I don’t want a “pretty” desktop. On my work and home PCs I’ve turned off most of the Windows visual enhancements, because I don’t care about them, and I’d rather be able to keep a browser window, a Word document, and 4 spreadsheets open than have animated window opennings.

At home, I used to like to play games on my computer, but I gave up due to my unwillingness to upgrade my hardware frequently enough. Looking at a Vista PC, I don’t want to have to have a graphics card just to run the OS, which is where this is heading. Give me an updated, but not upgraded Windows 2000.


10 posted on 04/11/2008 7:04:40 AM PDT by NYFriend
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To: NYFriend

I am buying 4 gig of RAM for a new box for $70. The video card is built into the motherboard (ATI 3400) and will more than adequately handle Vista. You can upgrade a box to do Vista for next to nothing.


16 posted on 04/11/2008 7:11:05 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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