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Reginald Etc.
BAR wrote:
Boater wrote: Eisboch wrote: "BAR" wrote in message ... 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. |
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