Many of these machines would have perished under the weight of Vista.
Windows 7 is great....been using it for months. Yesterday was the official launch date
IMHO Best Buy etc are charging 50-200$ more per computer right now due to the excitement. Wait until Thanksgiving or after to buy one
I will never buy a Toshiba anything (bad experience years ago), and the Dell website drives me crazy (no indication of which computers are ‘better’ than others; they are just named differently). I haven’t dealt with Gateway for many years, since they were accused of using cheap parts. H-P has never been on my computer list.
So, I guess that takes me out of the market for now, unless there is an alternative.
I recently bought a Samsung N10 netbook, for use to carry around as sometimes I need to get on the net in a hurry, so I wirelessly tether it to my G1 Android phone if WiFi is unavailable.
The Sammy netbook has a 10.1” screen, runs WinXP, has bluetooth, WiFi, a webcam (don’t need, don’t care), and a 6+ hour battery life if I ever should need it. Really nifty little netbook. The keyboard is basically fullsize. They just reduced the size of some of the peripheral keys that you don’t use as often. It boots up in about 60 seconds. I bought it in a combo deal with a Sammy ext CD/DVD drive for $354 delivered from Newegg.
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I loaded Windows 7 over my Vista on Wednesday. So far it’s working great! I’m going to test it a bit longer before overwriting it on my XP computer.
Got three copies yesterday. Installed on three machines over Vista. Piece of cake.
Hmmmm
Here is a suggestion about the desktop/laptop discussion and mouses. First, you need a mouse. I would forego the wireless mouses and get a big Targus retractable cord mouse which you can find on sale for about $10. Then I would go for a big screen laptop as your working machine. I really like that new 18.4” Toshiba but it is heavy. For travel get a netbook. The Toshiba netbook is currently the best on the market and has over 9 hours battery life. The touchpads and mini mouses are useless. And the wireless mouses are a pain in the butt with their battery problems and unreliability. You’ll still need the connection to the USB port anyway. The Targus mouse connection takes up almost no more room and the cord is tiny. Best of both worlds.
The Toshiba keyboards are the best in the business. And they are reliable. Additionally, laptops are easier to work on than desktops. You can change memory and hard drives out in a couple of minutes.
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DRM overhead and hardware disabling is still there big time.
BTT