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| Thread ID: 92726 | 2008-08-20 05:17:00 | One in three US Vista business users turns to XP | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 698890 | 2008-08-21 02:01:00 | People buy $899 Acers with 1GB of RAM that has Vista on and complain that Vista is the cause of the problem. People feel insulted and offended that their idea of a sub $1000 laptop is a waste of time and money. It's impossible to educate the general public on how much money they need to spend to get a decent laptop because they are ignorant and want the cheapest possible solution but also expect it to work like a high performance machine. If the general department store in NZ pushed $1500 laptops/desktops that had a minimum of 2GB of RAM then you would find less and less people crying and dribbling about Vistas so called problems. I can 100% prove that Vista problems are related to cheap ****ty sub $1000 laptops. I have done my research with focus groups and testers. Yes, but a lot of people dont NEED Vista, and they dont NEED a $1500 laptop - both are overkill if all you want to do is email/ word processing and some web surfing. People should have the option of XP for low end laptops such as those you describe. I still have an older laptop which still runs like a high performance machine - on XP - and it certainly wouldnt on Vista. The ASUS Eee PC is pretty low end, but runs great with XP. Certainly Vista SP1 is a lot more reliable and stable apparently, but is still overkill for plenty of people. It would make sense if both options were made available - and many vendors have realised this, and do this especially with laptops. Regards Peter |
laworder (12738) | ||
| 698891 | 2008-08-21 02:19:00 | A Kenworth is quite capable of fetching home a litre of milk, but it doesn't seem altogether sensible. Al the frilly bits that mean your ride is so pimped that it has to be at least a Kenworth do not make the milk any better in your cup of tea. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 698892 | 2008-08-21 02:22:00 | Depends on the tea.... | johcar (6283) | ||
| 698893 | 2008-08-21 02:34:00 | A Kenworth is quite capable of fetching home a litre of milk, but it doesn't seem altogether sensible. Al the frilly bits that mean your ride is so pimped that it has to be at least a Kenworth do not make the milk any better in your cup of tea. Yeah but it will get you your cup of tea faster than walking. |
Jams (1051) | ||
| 698894 | 2008-08-21 02:38:00 | I can 100% prove that Vista problems are related to cheap ****ty sub $1000 laptops. I have done my research with focus groups and testers. Supporting this, my friend bought an Acer laptop with 512MB of RAM and Vista Home Basic. It ran like a snail. (The Celeron didn't help either.) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 698895 | 2008-08-21 02:41:00 | Yeah but it will get you your cup of tea faster than walking. but of course, even a skoda would get your milk for your tea much quicker, and at 0.01 % of the cost |
bevy121 (117) | ||
| 698896 | 2008-08-21 02:55:00 | I'm still running Vista Non-SP1 on my laptop with only 1gb ram and a 1.6ghz dual core cpu. Runs absolutely fine, I even game on it Dunno what all the fuss is about. |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 698897 | 2008-08-21 03:04:00 | Eh - why haven't you got SP1? | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 698898 | 2008-08-21 03:04:00 | but of course, even a skoda would get your milk for your tea much quicker, and at 0.01 % of the cost Yeah, and a Skoda = XP. Vista installs so much quicker than XP (for me). Vista recognises so much more hardware straight out of the box. Vista boots faster. |
Jams (1051) | ||
| 698899 | 2008-08-21 03:12:00 | Up to 100% faster - Almost 50% more recognition - Needs a quick boot - And over 500% more advertising on TV. Wow. Send some to elsewhere right now - bill to others and would you include the Ginsu knives. Also the thicker aisles please. Am I the thirteenth caller? ;) :spam |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
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