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<blockquote data-quote="Jmac" data-source="post: 5395010" data-attributes="member: 545486">Uh ...&nbsp; Outside of the hard drive and memory, you&#039;ll basically need to order ANY part for ANY laptop directly through the manufacturer, with the exception of DIY laptops.&nbsp; This makes no sense whatsoever ...&nbsp; Besides, if you&#039;re doing a week-long report, you should still be doing a backup to flash drive on your Mac.&nbsp; Believe it or not, the &quot;infallible&quot; Macs still have hardware failures and crashes, too.&nbsp; I&#039;m posting from one that has been in for repair 4 times since it was purchased in August 2007.SP1 basically took care of every major and most of the minor issues Vista had.&nbsp; There really isn&#039;t much, if anything, wrong with Vista now other than it doesn&#039;t perform as well as it can on slower hard drives without some tweaks.&nbsp; SP2 is on the way (due Q1 2009, so within 3 months), though.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t tried the beta, but I&#039;ve heard good things.Windows 7 is shaping up quite nicely.&nbsp; The most recent build (available from your favourite torrent provider or newsgroup) runs quick, even on laptops, and has some nice new features, though I wish they hadn&#039;t pulled some of the software they did from Vista.&nbsp; Given that it&#039;s 90%+ similar to Vista, the launch should go much smoother.&nbsp; It really shouldn&#039;t be called Windows 7, though, as it&#039;s more like Windows 6.1 ...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jmac, post: 5395010, member: 545486"] Uh ... Outside of the hard drive and memory, you'll basically need to order ANY part for ANY laptop directly through the manufacturer, with the exception of DIY laptops. This makes no sense whatsoever ... Besides, if you're doing a week-long report, you should still be doing a backup to flash drive on your Mac. Believe it or not, the "infallible" Macs still have hardware failures and crashes, too. I'm posting from one that has been in for repair 4 times since it was purchased in August 2007. SP1 basically took care of every major and most of the minor issues Vista had. There really isn't much, if anything, wrong with Vista now other than it doesn't perform as well as it can on slower hard drives without some tweaks. SP2 is on the way (due Q1 2009, so within 3 months), though. I haven't tried the beta, but I've heard good things. Windows 7 is shaping up quite nicely. The most recent build (available from your favourite torrent provider or newsgroup) runs quick, even on laptops, and has some nice new features, though I wish they hadn't pulled some of the software they did from Vista. Given that it's 90%+ similar to Vista, the launch should go much smoother. It really shouldn't be called Windows 7, though, as it's more like Windows 6.1 ... [/QUOTE]

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