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<blockquote data-quote="faulkton" data-source="post: 3378643" data-attributes="member: 561910">I bought a laptop with vista premium and had no problem wiping it clean and starting fresh. I have had no problems with it and it is faster than my other laptop running XP, which is older but still a decent laptop.Funny thing is that i decided to wipe the other laptop clean and reinstall xp on it the next day.&nbsp; I have installed XP countless times and on a ton of machines, including the one i&#039;m refering to, and yesterday was the biggest pain of them all. For some reason the speedstep shit locked in at 800mhz and wouldn&#039;t change even on AC power. I never really figured that out and resorted to using a third party app to control it and regain the correct freq. Then the fukkin dvd drive wouldn&#039;t recognize disks it had burned or any other burned disk. Had to update the firmware even though it worked fine before the install.The overall XP install experience was just shitty when compared to the vista install. It just felt threadbare and outdated as i ran through the routine motions of setting things up the way i liked them. The enormous amount of updates really drove home how old XP is and made me realize I&#039;ve been using it for like 6 years. In comparison, the vista install was smooth and easy. XP was the shit in its day, but it was time for something new. I was looking toward Mac because i had heard so much shit about vista but took a chance and now</blockquote>

[QUOTE="faulkton, post: 3378643, member: 561910"] I bought a laptop with vista premium and had no problem wiping it clean and starting fresh. I have had no problems with it and it is faster than my other laptop running XP, which is older but still a decent laptop. Funny thing is that i decided to wipe the other laptop clean and reinstall xp on it the next day. I have installed XP countless times and on a ton of machines, including the one i'm refering to, and yesterday was the biggest pain of them all. For some reason the speedstep shit locked in at 800mhz and wouldn't change even on AC power. I never really figured that out and resorted to using a third party app to control it and regain the correct freq. Then the fukkin dvd drive wouldn't recognize disks it had burned or any other burned disk. Had to update the firmware even though it worked fine before the install. The overall XP install experience was just shitty when compared to the vista install. It just felt threadbare and outdated as i ran through the routine motions of setting things up the way i liked them. The enormous amount of updates really drove home how old XP is and made me realize I've been using it for like 6 years. In comparison, the vista install was smooth and easy. XP was the shit in its day, but it was time for something new. I was looking toward Mac because i had heard so much shit about vista but took a chance and now [/QUOTE]

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