ATTN: Laptop peoples

[filtor1 10+ year member]

7200 rpm HD ftl...5400 or SSD only for a laptop IMO. good price Chris. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

Indeed. It would have been in the $700's if I didn't upgrade the processor. Meh, I think I did just fine. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Hecta G 10+ year member]

DELL or HP, go XP. Talked with a DELL guy this week and says that XP is preferred 90% if the time.

May not have that choice in a few months.

 

[snova031]

You don't have the choice on the Inspiron's anymore, I believe.

Vista is actually pretty good, once you remove all of the bloatware, and disable a lot of stuff that isn't necessary to run.

 

[Jmac 10+ year member]

DELL or HP, go XP. Talked with a DELL guy this week and says that XP is preferred 90% if the time.
May not have that choice in a few months.

Once you've used Vista for a good while and actually take the time to learn all of its new features, it's kind of a pain going back to XP ... You have to add a lot of 3rd party apps to XP to get the same functionality that you get out of the box w/ Vista ...
My only gripes w/ Vista are:

1) It runs like shit on systems w/ less than 2 GB of RAM (though it runs faster than XP does w/ 3+ GB of RAM)

2) User Account Control is seriously ... seriously ... seriously annoying ... Fortunately, it's easily disabled ...

Hardware/Software compatibility issues are inherent to ANY new operating system (happened w/ XP, happened w/ OS X Leopard), so I don't really hold that against Vista.

 

[slick rick 10+ year member]

Once you've used Vista for a good while and actually take the time to learn all of its new features, it's kind of a pain going back to XP ... You have to add a lot of 3rd party apps to XP to get the same functionality that you get out of the box w/ Vista ...
My only gripes w/ Vista are:

1) It runs like shit on systems w/ less than 2 GB of RAM (though it runs faster than XP does w/ 3+ GB of RAM)

2) User Account Control is seriously ... seriously ... seriously annoying ... Fortunately, it's easily disabled ...

Hardware/Software compatibility issues are inherent to ANY new operating system (happened w/ XP, happened w/ OS X Leopard), so I don't really hold that against Vista.

are you using windows defender? Microsoft seems to make it a PITA to remove it properly...

 

[snova031]

User Account Control is such a pain in the ***...that was the first thing I disabled.

 

[Jmac 10+ year member]

are you using windows defender? Microsoft seems to make it a PITA to remove it properly...

No, I just disable Windows Defender ...

 

[BastardKidKris 10+ year member]

Maybe. But mine was $802. I bet I won that category. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif I would never use that size HD. I chose the 5400rpm drive to save on power usage as well. No need for the faster drive. My goal was to stay under $1K, I did, so I am pretty happy. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

yea, youre right. i kind of went for broke when i configured mine

i think i should have gotten the 250gb 5400rpm drive instead