Eisboch wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is Here wrote in message
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If your daughter is up to the task, she can ask HP for a free Install Disk
for Vista and do a clean install in the HP. Without all of the junk they
preload in their machines it will run faster,just not as fast as it would
with WinXP. HP might be willing to sell her a XP install disk at a
reasonable price.


My daughter is happy with the new computer and Vista. It replaced a clunky,
very old desktop that was still working, running Windows '98.

*I* am the one that happened to notice that it runs somewhat sluggishly
compared to the older, HP Pavilion that I use (running XP) or my wife's
laptop .... also a HP Pavilion, but the model optimized for "Multimedia".
It also runs XP.

Like Harry suggested, my daughter's new computer may be shy some RAM and may
have a bunch of applications running in the background that slows it down.
But that was not my point.

My point was that for the average computer user who has limited knowledge of
how to optimize a computer, Vista may be somewhat disappointing, even in a
new computer shipped with Vista as the OS. Many people treat a computer
like a toaster. Plug it in and use it. Not all people have the knowledge
of how to optimize it, add memory, etc., nor do they care. They expect it
to work, as advertised.

That's why I think Vista is having a poor introduction.

Eisboch



I agree with your point. Further, Microsoft provides lousy documentation
with VISTA, perhaps even worse than it provided with XP. That, sadly,
seems to be the trend these days. Even my "overpriced" MacBook came with
scanty documentation. Why computer manufacturers think their customers
know precisely what to do from the get-go is beyond my comprehension.

Because we live on the fringes of a metro area, though, we do have a
couple of Apple stores in our area, and the "geeks" there seem fairly
knowledgeable. I've long been an "admirer" of the Apple stores, and
almost always stop by when I am dragged to the Mall, so I was able to
pick up bits and pieces of knowledge about the new Apple OS and one or
two applications. It was not with a little trepidation, though, that I
actually went in to buy an Apple laptop to replace my Thinkpad.