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Thread ID: 78101	2007-04-03 00:33:00	What laptop to buy for home use?!	stuffed (1469)	Press F1

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537953	2007-04-03 00:33:00	Have had a death (sob) – a 5 year old Dell Dimension that my wife used on our home network. OK think it is probably laptop time – but what to get?! Will buy a new one with Vista. She uses it mainly for email, word processing, photo editing and music to our Bose. Appreciate any comments on what and where. Many thanks	stuffed (1469)
537954	2007-04-03 01:20:00	A word of warning regarding getting one with Vista. I have Photoshop Elements2 on XP. It wont load into Vista and from what I have read, Adobe have no intention of providing updates/upgrades to enable many of their products to run on Vista. Also, I have a Canon S45 digital camera and this does not have drivers available for Vista. Canon seem to think that it will be a while coming. So, I have to dual boot into XP to do anything with photography - you should check everything out carefully or you might be rather disapointed.	Bryan (147)
537955	2007-04-03 01:26:00	if you buy a vista pc and you have probs you could always install microsoft virtualpc (now free) and then install the o/s of your choice to run whatever you need 'inside' vista......	drcspy (146)
537956	2007-04-03 01:42:00	Tecra A6, Core 2 Duo T5500, 1.66GHz, 512MB DDR2, 60GB, 14.1" TFT, DVD±RW/DVD-RAM, WLAN, Firewire, Win XP Pro, Bundled with Backpack & Hub www.ascent.co.nz	pctek (84)
537957	2007-04-03 02:04:00	Have had a death (sob) – a 5 year old Dell Dimension that my wife used on our home network. OK think it is probably laptop time – but what to get?! Will buy a new one with Vista. She uses it mainly for email, word processing, photo editing and music to our Bose. Appreciate any comments on what and where. Many thanks It depends on what she does with Photo editing. If it's very hefty Photoshop type work, then you would need more RAM than you would if it's fairly lightweight stuff (e.g cropping photos). In any case, make sure you get a laptop with at least 1GB of RAM, otherwise you'll find that it will run very slowly (esp. with Vista on it).	somebody (208)
537958	2007-04-03 02:25:00	www.playtech.co.nz	mejobloggs (264)
537959	2007-04-03 02:48:00	This is only my personal opinion but having had some experiences with HP/Compaq service, I would steer clear of them. After a year long battle with HP that was eventually resolved, my daughter gave it to her husband who isn't a heavy user and bought an ASUS from Dick Smith. In case you are not aware, ASUS is one of the top motherboard manufacturers in the world, so it is not a "fly by night" maker 2 year International Guarantee as standard, well speced for the price, and at least the local branch still has stock with XP installed. 2 yr extended warranty (4 in total) was a very acceptable price I agree utterly with previous comments. Steer clear of Vista for at least the next 12 months. I was sent a site listing many 100 programs that won't run on Vista. Look at the Asus Z92T Notebook search.dse.co.nz 677&site=&w=asus+laptop&submit.x=10&submit.y=6	Tony.br (4018)
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