BAR wrote:
Boater wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
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I am pimping my daughter out to Bill Gates. Bought her a new laptop
with Vista on it, we'll see what happens. The system is a dell with
a 2GHz processor with 3GB RAM and a 160 GB disk. I figured for $450
I couldn't go wrong even if it dies in two years it is still a bargain.


I was in Best Buy yesterday getting some blank CD and DVD disks and
happened to browse through the computers on display. This one caught
my eye and I was going to buy the package, but they only had the
version with less RAM (and minus a few other features) in stock.
Thinking of ordering it direct from HP on-line.
I liked it's small size .... sorta a hybrid between a conventional
tower computer and a laptop. I can't imagine needing a 500GB hard
drive. The HP Laptop I use now has an 80 GB hard drive and, after
several years of use and adding many applications, music, videos,
etc. it still has about 70 GB of unused capacity.

http://tinyurl.com/7dyre2

I've had very good luck with the HP Pavilion Laptop that I use now,
as has my wife with her similar version.
Mine's quite a few years old now and I expect it to blow up someday
soon so I am already thinking of it's replacement. Going to Vista
doesn't get me all excited, but I really haven't tried it much and am
only going by the industry reaction to it. Switching to a Mac just
isn't in the cards. I don't have the level of interest in computers
to get into running software emulators and/or stocking up on new
applications to do stuff.

Eisboch





The transition isn't that, Richard. If, for example, you write stuff
or do spreadsheets with the Microsoft Office package, the same package
is available to run on MACs in MAC mode. Same with Thunderbird,
Firefox, and many other apps. You really would not have to "buy" very
many apps, I would guess.

Just call up Microsoft and say I bought a Mac and I want to transfer my
MS Office license from my PC to my Mac. The will tell you that you can
do it very easily buy purchasing a copy of MS Office for your Mac.

But I won't argue against VISTA. It works fine for me.

As long as you have enough RAM.

RAM is cheap. No reason not to have what you need.