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Ratae

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Re: Vista or xp
« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2007, 02:41:26 PM »
Quote from: Floydoid on December 06, 2007, 01:34:22 PM
Ratae, in that case build your own and install Linux, then neither PCW or MS will get an halfpenny of your money. :)

Floyd.....In answer to your suggestion.
1/.....I have enough to do without building computers! Also I've spent the last 'god only knows how many' years..building>assembling>making>designing>inspecting things and I'm heartily sick of it! I'm now retired which to me means doing only what I now enjoy!

2/.....I like XP!!!!    :)

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Re: Vista or xp
« Reply #16 on: December 06, 2007, 03:26:06 PM »
>> I like XP!!!!

I guess it takes all types :linux:
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Re: Vista or xp
« Reply #17 on: December 06, 2007, 04:52:12 PM »
I like Vista, :) Still saying that the OS I had up to march this year was windows ME.
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Re: Vista or xp
« Reply #18 on: December 06, 2007, 05:00:10 PM »
ME was the pits of MS operating systems, tho apparently 2000 is considered to be the best of the pre-XP systems.
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Re: Vista or xp
« Reply #19 on: December 07, 2007, 12:22:08 AM »
>> ME was the pits of MS operating systems

Never had any problems with it - yeah I know some slated it - but for me at least it fixed some problems I was seeing with 98.

I can remember though getting an OEM version of it - not liking it that much and then rolling back to 98.   Which lasted for about a week and I then realised that ME was faster at some things - particularly so at say defrag.   So I put ME back on - and actually liked it.

Vista though - still need to get to grips with that :(
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Re: Vista or xp
« Reply #20 on: December 07, 2007, 12:37:26 AM »
Quote from: kitz on December 07, 2007, 12:22:08 AM
Vista though - still need to get to grips with that :(

I don't care if I never do... but erm.. don't quote me on that in 6 months time :P
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Re: Vista or xp
« Reply #21 on: December 07, 2007, 07:20:15 AM »
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Re: Vista or xp
« Reply #22 on: December 09, 2007, 10:23:04 PM »
Dell will still sell you a PC with XP on it.
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Re: Vista or xp
« Reply #23 on: December 09, 2007, 10:43:35 PM »
Hi stevie, welcome to the forum. Good for Dell.

We have Dell gear at work and I asked the IT bod whether we would be sticking with XP. He said we'd be going over to Vista late in 2008. I was surprised!
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Re: Vista or xp
« Reply #24 on: December 09, 2007, 10:58:59 PM »
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Re: Vista or xp
« Reply #25 on: December 10, 2007, 11:10:04 AM »
Using XP - I actually paid for it  :'(.

Must admit I quite like it, esp. with 2 Gb RAM and running in classic interface.

Until I got this new(er) PC I was using ME.  I liked it a lot and had not one single problem with it.  You just have to take out the garbage like System Restore etc.  I ended up preferring it to 98SE.

I would go back to ME like a shot, but there are too many hardware issues involved (too much RAM, can't get drivers etc).

Awaiting XP SP3 (real soon now  ;)) then will slipstream a new XP CD and take out most of the rubbish using nLite.

Vista - not likely, I'd rather use the dreaded L***x.

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Re: Vista or xp
« Reply #26 on: December 10, 2007, 11:16:13 AM »
Hi stevie. A Dell lappie wouldn't be my first choice although they may be better these days ;) Dell are selling through the channel now too so I assume they're hurting rather badly (financially) if they've dropped the sacred "We only sell direct" mantra?

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/12/06/dell_channel/
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Re: Vista or xp
« Reply #27 on: December 10, 2007, 01:12:47 PM »
Well I have had 3 Dell desktops in the last 12 years and I must say I can,t say much to fault them.My latest one which I bought in April had a faulty hard drive.They changed the complete desktop tower unit without question.Like any bit of kit you can be un lucky and have problems.  :)
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Re: Vista or xp
« Reply #28 on: December 10, 2007, 06:14:40 PM »
Oh the desktops are fine. The laptops might be the same now for all I know :)
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Re: Vista or xp
« Reply #29 on: December 11, 2007, 02:05:31 PM »
I notice that report states  "The XP option is available only to US customers"..  but the UK site also offers XP on several of their machines too.
« Last Edit: December 11, 2007, 08:12:35 PM by kitz »
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