New Laptop Advice

Post by **0lderama** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:22 pm

lo all

i am in the process of gerring a laptop from dell

now i have the option of vista home or xp home

any advice on which one am i best sticking to xp or giving vista a go

will vista slow things down ect

heres the spec
intel Core 2 Duo T5270 (1.40 GHz, 800MHz FSB, 2MB L2-cache)
Microsoft Operating System Genuine Windows VistaÂ® Home Basic - English or XP
Memory 2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024)
Video Card Integrated IntelÂ® Graphic Media Accelerator X3100
120GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive

cheers nick

Post by **madman045** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:46 pm

Olderama wrote: lo all
i am in the process of gerring a laptop from dell

now i have the option of vista home or xp home

any advice on which one am i best sticking to xp or giving vista a go

will vista slow things down ect

heres the spec
intel Core 2 Duo T5270 (1.40 GHz, 800MHz FSB, 2MB L2-cache)
Microsoft Operating System Genuine Windows VistaÂ® Home Basic - English or XP
Memory 2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024)
Video Card Integrated IntelÂ® Graphic Media Accelerator X3100
120GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive
cheers nick

Hi Nick, what's your budget and what is it going to be used for?

If your going to use Vista, 2GB ram is the minimal, the X3100 isnt any good for gaming, also you will want Vista Premium edition as the Basic is pointless.

Post by **0lderama** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:56 pm

Madman045 wrote: Hi Nick, what's your budget and what is it going to be used for?

If your going to use Vista, 2GB ram is the minimal, the X3100 isnt any good for gaming, also you will want Vista Premium edition as the Basic is pointless.

lo m8ty

its gonna be used for browsing really and the budget is 300 ish (its a hotdeal laptop offer)

it looks like xp then or is it worth looking at vista then i can install xp pro

at a later date

cheers

Post by **Turts** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:17 pm

Oldie... the one i bought my daughter had vista on... basic i think... if i'm honest i'd say go xp... vista is a mess !

Post by **0lderama** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:29 pm

Cheers

i have gone for xp version

muchos

oldie

Post by **Eagle** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:41 pm

Generally think Vista is not working for anyone.

Many have tried it and even the most hardened have eventually gone back to XP

Post by **Clingy** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:39 am

I think Vista is fine. I have it on 4 machines now and no way would I go back to XP.

Think we must live in a different world

In the main, general users who have asked for my recommendations love it. Gaming may be that different world I guess. At work all new PCs for the last year have been Vista and when 2008 server is released we shall reap the benefits. I'd hate to look back in 2 years time wishing I had not delayed the inevitable, like I did with Win98/XP (remember all that fuss?).

Vista home runs perfectly well on 1GB (even runs on 512mb), unless you are gaming.

Sorry peeps, but I never was a "bandwagon" man

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Post by **Legthigh** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:50 pm

Forget the one from Dell

Get a Macbook Pro with a nice OS X / Bootcamp install

Post by **0lderama** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:52 pm

lol ginge i only need it for pron

Post by **Legthigh** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:12 pm

Ignore me dude, I'm just a Mac fanboy these days, 'Once you go Mac you'll never go back'

Post by **Rasputin** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:30 pm

Inoshishi wrote: Forget the one from Dell

Get a Macbook Pro with a nice OS X / Bootcamp install

Gotto agree Mac's are pretty good, but thats only after you stick your preferred Linux Distro on them

Clingy Macbook would do fine for the tittie sites and probs cut down on Spy-ware.