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Admit It: You Recently Bought a Vista PC

840quadra said:
Touché

In your field (I do a small amount of consulting myself) flexibility is a key aspect. While you need to be educated and firm in your recommendations, especially if they are using equipment not best suited for the job at hand, you are at the whim of your customers wishes. I still stand behind what I said previously, as in my experience, customers with an opinion unique or drastically different from my own, are not a good fit for me to support, or advise.

If you can and have recommended people both to and away from Apple products, that would tell me that you are more open minded, but I am not going to influence your bottom line ;) .
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The bottom line is just so overrated.
Honestly I recommend Macs in all cases except for gaming or some 3d actually. PC's are good for throwaway computers where I don't want to risk my Mac. :D
 
Yesterday I bought a laptop and one of the requirements was Windows XP, or in other words: not Vista.

The reasons I am replacing my TiBook include working better with other PCs and Win2K3 servers.

With XP I know I can use VMware Player both under Linux and Windows XP, with Vista I'd have to go and find out;
With XP I know I can play DVDs, CDs, extract sound and images from them, convert stuff to and from formats that I can use on my Mac and Linux boxes (not for profit, I'm talking about using DIVX instead of a DVD on a plane, making my own ringtones, etc.), with Vista I'd have to find out how to (or "if") make this work;
With XP I know how to find drivers for my current peripherals, with Vista I'm not even sure they under development or if there will be forced hardware upgrades...

and so on. The issue is that I needed to update my laptop now, and Vista has just gone on sale, there's plenty of rough edges that people are still finding and there's a lot of small details about my day to day computer use that I'd need to re-discover. Don't have time for that. The time I do have I don't intend to spend learning about licensing agreements with MS and their MAFIAA counterparts.
 
I recently bought an Acer 5630 laptop that came preloaded with Vista Home Premium. It took an hour and a half just to do it's initial boot. I played around with Vista for about a week and was annoyed by how slow it seemed (took quite a bit of time to load certain programs) and overall I just didn't like it. So, I've wiped the hard drive and installed a dual-boot setup between Ubuntu and Win XP Pro--now the laptop works great. :p
 
Installed Vista on another iMac - hideous. It will never be on my personal machine. They have so much to make right.
 
Acer Aspire ASE380-UD440A. I was using my old P4 for a media center in my room. I finally got a tv tuner but my Geforce ti500 wouldn't support that with media center. Since I recently left working at Best Buy I was able to get a hook up on the system (under $400). So it's now just a media server for the house/my room. I need to get a bigger monitor because it might be nice to be able to mess around with it once in a while. I can't see anything from across the room. Though my PowerBook has found a new home on the desk next to my bed :)
 
Never! I had a KayPro in 1982. More fun than a box of pencils.
 

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I have not bought a Vista PC.

I have installed Vista under Boot Camp, but I never use it and I'm going to get rid of it.
 
I installed Vista on my main machine a month ago.

Works nicely, and is pretty nice.

Havent booted into XP since. I'm thinking about bombing the XP partition to get the 80GB of space back.
 
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