"Mike Dobony" <sword@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 5 May 2008 12:53:02 -0400, Arny Krueger wrote:
>
>> "Mike Dobony" <sword@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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>>> On Sun, 4 May 2008 06:29:47 -0400, Arny Krueger wrote:
>>
>>>> Or, you can simply retrofit XP. A few customers have
>>>> asked me about this. As long as XP drivers are
>>>> available for the particular set of hardware, it is a
>>>> viable option.
>>
>>> And loose the extra software that only installs with the
>>> install discs and Vista.
>>
>> Most if not all of which is utter crap.
> Microsoft Office?
It is a demo.
> Video editing sw?
It is a demo.
> Audio editing sw?
It is a demo. If you want a good audio editor, its free and called
Audacity.
> Maybe not as great as some full blown apps, but useful
> for the occasional use.
Only until the relatively short demo period runs out on Office.
>>> Also you may not have HW
>>> drivers available for XP for that particular machine.
>> I covered that. So far I have seen zero cases of that,
>> and I've looked a number of times.
> You looked into retroing XP onto a number of Vista
> laptops and getting all the HW drivers needed?
Yes.
> I'll have
> to check into that. For what I need a laptop for does
> not necessitate a high end computer. All I need is
> 1+GHZ, 1 gb ram, and 80gb HD. Beyond that is icing. All
> I need it for is backing up my do***ents from the
> desktop, word processing, and email. For easy hotmail
> access I need XP or Vista. Vista is still a downgrade to
> XP as far as speed and usability from what I have seen.
> I don't want the new Office junk that requires an add-on
> to do the simple customizing that can be done on earlier
> versions (icons and toolbars). I suppose it is fine for
> many novices to use who don't care about speed, but I
> don't want to cripple my computers with a slow operating
> system. I tried it on a fast computer that had XP on it
> and it is painfully slow compared to XP. I suspect my
> Pentium III laptop is faster with XP than a 1.6 GHz
> laptop would be with Vista. I checked out some new ones
> and they seem much slower than my laptop.
If all you want is a 1 GHz laptop, just eBay one up. It will likely come
with XP.
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