Dell with Vista?

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ttomm46

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My long distance girlfriend is wanting to order a computer from Dell but has heard nightmare stories about Vista....Is it that bad?..I have Xp...and if so woild they put xp on instead
Tom:rolleyes:
 
Vista is fine, usually the bad stories are blown well out of proportion. I agree, Vista is much more stable than XP ever was for me, even on the same hardware.
 
Well, i wouldn't say get dell, but anyway, if it has SP1 vista, it is good, SP1 has the glitches fixed.
 
I also agree with everyone. I have vista premium with sp1 and it works great. Other than windows explorer crashing once or twice on me don't know what that was about =/
 
Just make sure you get the extra ram 2 gig min. and that you get Vista with SP1 and you'll be ok. But don't worry about Vista worry about Dell.
 
ttomm46 said:
My long distance girlfriend is wanting to order a computer from Dell but has heard nightmare stories about Vista....Is it that bad?..I have Xp...and if so woild they put xp on instead
Tom:rolleyes:
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Vista was sluggish pre SP1 for me. The reason why Vista failed is because it was cool to hate vista.

80% of all the info I was readin on vista hated it without any REAL facts. I would say most never ran Vista.

I run x64 Vista Ultimate and I am oddly surprised at how much I like it. One thing is you will want to disable things to make boot up faster etc.

A good site for process lists etc is here.
http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/servicecfg.htm

Disabling Indexing and Defender will greatly increase your speeds. I sadly use 2 programs that are blocked by driver tool so I gotta boot up hitting F8 to disable it each time which sucks but eventually there will be a fix.
 
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